Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Young poets starving for recognition have but two days to submit their entries to the famous Harvard Summer School poetry contest. All manuscripts must be turned in to the Social Director's office at Matthews 4 by 5 p.m. Wednesday. Winners receive big cash prizes, and, more important, publication of their work in the Summer News. What more incentive could be offered...
...said Mandy later, "he gave me a mink coat, three mink jackets, a Persian lamb jacket, three diamond brooches, two pairs of diamond and ruby earrings, a big gold diamond and ruby watch, two diamond rings, and a Jaguar. For my 18th birthday, he gave me ?1,000 in cash...
...public. The SEC has been trying to run them off the floor for a generation; it says that they enjoy special inside advantages and only accelerate the markets' swings by buying on rises and selling on falls. Floor traders claim that they perform a function by pumping cash into the market at strategic moments, but the SEC group contends that they only follow the trends-and thus accelerate the markets' runaway booms and shattering breaks. Proposed: an end to all floor trading...
...imprisonment, 75% of his wealth was confiscated, and after his release Allied authorities forced him to sell the remainder of his coal interests. At first this seemed a bitter blow, but when the coal industry hit a depression in 1958 Flick turned out to be set with plenty of cash. With an unerring sixth sense for economic trends, he resisted advice to concentrate all he had in steel, decided that most growth would be in autos, chemicals and paper, and set out to pyramid his holdings in each field. He bought 40% control of prestigious Daimler-Benz (Mercedes) to form...
...have learned from Charles Sherrod, leader of the SNCC Southwest Georgia Project (Albany and surrounding counties), that I would probably be held on a bond of $3400 after being convicted Friday in municipal court. Since I am now out on $1900 bond (cash), an additional $1500 would be needed to get me out. Before trial, prisoners can be "farmed out" to jails in other towns, as was done with me for the three weeks I was in. After trial, however prisoners must be kept in the Albany jail, and male prisoners have several times been stuck in with toughs...