Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...club ever since he was twelve and a batboy for the Birmingham Barons. He tried to buy the Detroit Tigers and the Chicago White Sox, failed each time, finally got his chance when the Kansas City Athletics went on the block in 1960. Plunking down $4,000,000 in cash, he confided: "I'm a baseball...
Hello, Dolly!, a musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker, has eye appeal, ear appeal, love appeal and laugh appeal, but its most insinuative charm is its nostalgic appeal. When Dolly Levi (Carol Channing), widow and matchmaker, fondles a cash register after announcing that she plans to marry its owner, she carries the mind back to a time when women needed and cherished men for their money, and in a day when wives sometimes earn as much or more than their husbands, that image is strangely endearing. The curmudgeonly businessman who loathed culture, spurned pleasure and lived...
...want or need to put in extra hours at work; average factory wages in December, after all, hit a new record of $102 a week, or $2.50 an hour. But the bulk of younger workers, burdened with the expenses of setting up households, are eager for any additional cash. Says William Goldmann, assistant regional director for the U.A.W. in Los Angeles, "Our members start complaining about excessive overtime, and we get them down to nine or ten hours a day. They work like that for a while, and then they come to us and say they want more overtime...
Cameras are used for production, protection and sales. IBM uses photographs to make printed circuit boards for computers, and McDonnell Aircraft saves $28 and 15 man-hours on each engineering layout by using cameras for reproduction. As a protection against forgers, cameras snap pictures of people who cash checks in supermarkets and banks. Newark's Beauty Industries Inc. uses an instant-picture Polaroid as a sales tool, photographing a beauty parlor's client and then overlaying different hair styles on the photo so that the customer can see how she will look...
...Idle Cash. The company that is introducing stocks to the Argentine boondocks is the Deltec organization, a many-faceted (paints, petrochemicals, motor scooters), hemisphere-ranging investment house that specializes in Latin American finance. Deltec set up and controls an affiliate known as Valardel, formed to tap idle cash in the hinterlands, where owners have had little to invest in except land. Deliberately staying out of the big cities and concentrating on rural customers, Valardel has sold stocks in twelve Argentine companies, including a steelworks, several auto firms and a paper maker...