Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cash Shortage. The most serious crisis is a three-month strike for higher wages by 1,500 clerks on the Colombo docks, which has mushroomed into a sympathy walkout by more than 13,000 other white-collar workers. Warehouses bulge with millions of pounds of unsold rubber and tea. Many of the vast plantations cannot meet their weekly payrolls because they are short of cash. Foreign trade is at a virtual standstill. As the Cabinet leveled a back-to-work ultimatum at the strikers last week, Colombo buzzed with rumors that Mrs. Bandaranaike could only remain in office by declaring...
...Agriculture Department spokesman said the U.S. would save $5,000,000 a year in storage costs by the 1,000,000-ton reduction in its wheat stocks. The Russians, he added, were paying cash, but he did not elaborate. The whole wheat deal, originally approved by President Kennedy in October, nearly collapsed when congressional critics tried to prohibit the extension of credit to the Russians and demanded cash instead. Whether half of the wheat would move in U.S. vessels, a condition that Kennedy laid down to make the deal politically more palatable but that the Russians resisted because of higher...
...told his trusting customers that he had known of the Hong Kong failure and had withdrawn their funds in time. Then he set up a phony account in his Chinatown bank, juggled his books, which were kept in Chinese characters, so as to pay back anyone who demanded cash from Hong Kong...
...talked about cigarette smoking and lung cancer, saying there was a new sign over Forest Lawn cemetery: THIS IS MARLBORO COUNTRY. He said that jealous religious types were trying to cash in like the singing nun, but no one was interested in a whistling rabbi. Trying folksiness, he told about the little town in Maine where he once lived: "The place was so small that Howard Johnson carried only one flavor...
...attempt yesterday to bail Weaver failed when Sheriff Fred N. Pickett refused to accept an offer of cash or a check in place of a bail bond. Michael D. Zurawin '65, a classmate of Weaver's in Dunster, contacted Pickett on his own initiative...