Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...army Major Setha Thanarat, demanded that the courts appoint him executor of his father's estate. Setha charged that his stepmother, thirtyish, comely Thanpuying Vichitra Thanarat, had deliberately underestimated Sarit's assets at $650,000, and had hidden away for her own use millions of dollars in cash, jewelry and land deeds. The press, which Sarit had kept in tight check throughout his reign, gleefully dug through the records and discovered that Sarit had owned or held an interest in a trust company, a brewery, 51 automobiles, and some 30 pieces of land, most of which...
...fees. A prosperous Texan charged with homicide once said that he could not decide whether to call in Foreman and spend the rest of his life in the poorhouse or take his chances on a moderate sentence and keep his estate. The Ruby family claims to be out of cash, but Foreman is optimistic: "There is some property they will try to sell." Foreman may well be worth his fat fees. In defending some 700 persons accused of capital crimes, he has lost only one to the electric chair...
Died. John Denby Allen, 76, longtime (1942-56) president and chairman of Chicago's Brink's Inc., biggest U.S. money mover ($300 billion a year), who directed repayment of the $1,200,000 in cash lost to customers in the 1950 Boston robbery, then ordered the intensive security overhaul that has precluded any sequel to that heist and, true to the new Brinkmanship, kept three pistols hidden in his office to the day of his retirement; following a heart attack; in Chicago...
...five days-partly because men do not have babies. Some labor leaders are also cool to women workers; only 14% of them join unions, and those who do tend to vote down proposed pension plans. Predictably, they do not want the security of pensions, but the joy of more cash to spend immediately...
...Hair. Chemical companies will cash in on the steady swing to plastic toys by selling upwards of $330 million worth of such plastics as polyethylene, polystyrene and vinyl. Another $120 million will go to papermakers for cartons, paper dolls and business forms. Steelmen will get $60 million worth of business, textile spinners $50 million, and the remaining $40 million will be disbursed among producers of everything from lumber and zinc to musical movements and tiny electrical motors. In 1964 the makers of construction materials and machine tools will also reap big benefits from the toymakers. Planning big increases in their...