Word: cash
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Beckmann's art jangles with the banjo beat and brassy horns of a prewar Berlin nightclub. Despair dresses up in a mauve derby and dirty spats, strutting stiffly around a shallow, klieg-lit stage like a man who has a pocketful of cash and a pawn ticket on his soul. Beckmann painted as if his eyes were taped open; yet his vision of man's fate is shot through with blinding compassion. So endowed, his art ages little, as shown in his first retrospective currently on view at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, including more than...
...U.S.C., which shares the record with Brandeis for matching its earlier grant about two years ahead of schedule, used that money to polish a new reputation for nurturing scholarship as well as football heroes. The administration established cash awards for outstanding teaching and research, revamped the liberal-arts and graduate curriculums. U.S.C. will invest its new Ford grant of $7,500,000 in long-term endowments, use matching funds for current operations and plant expansion...
...Pennsylvania to try his hand at business. He proved even more inept than his father. His first investment was in a frontier store in Louisville. On a typical day in the firm's short, unhappy life, Audubon's horse strayed away with a saddlebag full of cash while the proprietor stalked an unfamiliar warbler into the canebrake. Subsequent business ventures in other states and territories also foundered, leaving Audubon briefly in debtor's prison...
...Street had expected many of the initial investors to cash in their capital gams as soon as they crossed the six-month tax divide, thus causing a big sell-off and falling prices. Professionals thus sold an estimated 100,000 shares short, borrowing the stock to sell at a high price and figuring to repay it at a lower price. But after Dec. 3, the first date on which investors could take capital gains, the price went higher in stead of lower, forcing short sellers to scramble to cover their losses and sending the stock even higher. Many bro kers...
...Wall Street insiders, Johnson himself got on the horn to some bank chiefs, notably Morgan Guaranty's Henry Clay Alexander. The Administration satisfied itself that the New York bankers would make no immediate increases, partly because their supply of money was well ahead of the loan demand from cash-heavy U.S. corporations. To keep them in that mood, the Federal Reserve last week pumped more than $1 billion into the banking system...