Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...temporary income tax cuts if recession threatens." He cited other measures that he expects to help keep the economy buoyant through 1965: an excise tax cut that would, if approved by Congress, amount to $700 million this year, $1.75 billion when fully implemented; a 7% boost in social security cash benefits, amounting to $1.25 billion a year; an increase of $3.5 billion in federal spending; income tax cuts, completing the two-stage provisions of last year's legislation, amounting to $1 billion for corporations, $3 billion for individuals...
...operative interhouse was set up on a "meal-for-a-meal" basis. It was agreed that any significant imbalance would be made up in cash, but it was hoped that this would prove unnecessary since the Co-operatives have limited budgets...
According to Leslie M. Spits '65, treasurer of the Harvard Houses, the system has worked very well and no cash exchange has yet been necessary...
...World Bank helped out with a $35 million loan; the Export-Import Bank provided $67.5 million. Major construction was finished in 36 months instead of the projected 48 months, and the first big shipments began moving down the river and out to sea in 1957, enabling ICOMI to cash in on the unusually high manganese prices caused by the Suez crisis. Since then, ICOMI has shipped 5,900,000 tons, grossed $224 million in all and netted between $12 million and $15 million each year. Moreover, it was able to repay its Export-Import Bank loan three years ahead...
...simple expedient of picking top poets and giving them a useful chunk of cash, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry has established itself in the relatively short span of 16 years as probably the most highly regarded of U.S. literary awards. Since 1948, when a distinguished jury stirred a furor by awarding the initial prize to Ezra Pound,* the list of Bollingen winners has amounted to a virtual roll call of U.S. poetic merit. Among them: Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, Conrad Aiken, William Carlos Williams, Theodore Roethke. After the 1962 award to Robert Frost, the frequency...