Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kerner appointed Isaacs attorney for the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners. Isaacs managed Kerner's successful 1960 race for Governor, was rewarded by appointment to the $15,000 job as director of state revenue. He ran the Revenue Department, which collects some 75% of the state's cash income, mostly in sales taxes, until returning to private law practice in September...
...monthly pay, an enterprising G.I. can make up the difference by playing the black market. In some small towns, girls have organized to establish minimum rates. Groups like the Rose Association and the Reconstruction Association have instituted "pillow fees" ranging from $100 to $200 a month. But cash is not as important as PX privileges. Simply by reporting a readiness to get married, a G.I. can provide his moose with cigarettes, radios and cameras, all of which are resalable on the black market for several times their original cost...
...major part of his life for 25 years. He has never married. He shares his home in Westchester with his parents. In 1950 the Yankees gave him a Mel Allen Day in Yankee Stadium and handed him $55,000 worth of gewgaws, including a Cadillac and $10,000 in cash. Allen contributed the cash part to college scholarships...
Partly as a result of corporate hedging against inflation, backlogs of unfilled orders have jumped smartly in the metals industries. Inventories of steel are running close to 20% higher than a year ago because users in the auto, appliances and can industries are converting their plentiful cash and credit into stockpiles as a defense against price rises or the possibility of a steel strike next May. The overworked steelmakers have stretched out many delivery times to four months and have pushed production to a two-year high of 81% of capacity-and would be producing even more were...
...WALK THE LINE (Columbia), sings Johnny Cash, "because you're mine." A country and western star, Cash is also welcome on the folk circuit because of his agreeable dark baritone voice and the quiet conviction he brings to even the most outlandish tales. These seven of his own songs include Give My Love to Rose, the message of a fellow dying on the railroad tracks, and Folsom Prison Blues, intoned by a cad who "shot a man in Reno, just to watch...