Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kirkland House dining hall will remain open until after the supper meal Sunday, June 7, for students remaining in Cambridge for commencement. Meals there must be paid for with coupons or cash at transient rates...
Blank Checks. To get more than a third of the money it needs, A.T.&T. went to its usual source of cash: that most democratized group of capitalists, its own stockholders. The company floated history's largest stock issue, 12,241,294 shares, and gave first crack at the issue to its shareholders on a 1-for-20 basis. Openly trying to make the stock even more attractive, Fred Kappel announced an increase in the yearly dividend from $3.60 to $4 and a 2-for-1 split that next month will raise the total to 512,000,000 shares...
...brought life and uncertainty to Lower Egypt. Not only does the rain-fed flood vary in volume year by year, producing the "seven fat years and seven lean years," but at best spills some 9 billion gallons of fresh water into the sea annually, often leaving Egypt's cash crops of cotton and cane thirsty between floods...
...interest or to speculate on the fluctuating prices of bonds, which move around in a range just above or below par value. Another attraction is that low margin requirements permit an investor to buy $100,000 worth of Government securities by putting down as little as $5,000 cash; if the bond's value rises just one-half point, he earns $500. Bond dealers are made or broken by their ability to predict instinctively how much "retail buyers" will be willing to pay. The fractional prices change rapidly, pushed up and down by such factors as bank interest rates...
...Ohio gamine whose pastel American Dream is marred by the Midas touch. She wants only "a simple life with one man to love." But the men she marries have a way of getting rich quick, leaving her in widow's weeds with Rolls-Royces, private airplanes, pink mansions, cash and securities. After four husbands and legacies piling up to $211 million, she goes to see Psychiatrist Robert Cummings...