Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...naval quarantine of Cuba, a U.S. fleet was on its way within hours. The U.S.S. Blandy, a destroyer, shoved off so quickly from Newport that it left behind its paymaster and his moneybags. On payday Lieut. James Eilberg, the supply officer, doled out the ship's petty-cash hoard of $9,500, then collected money as it was spent in the ship's store, post office and "gedunk" (soda shop), and parceled it back out until everyone was paid...
...were knighted by the Queen. Recently the gap between cricketers has become increasingly absurd, as it developed that Gentlemen were making more money out of the game than were the Players. Ted Dexter, currently leading England in the Test series against Australia, is an amateur who rakes in the cash by appearing in testimonial ads for a shirt company, writing sports articles for the London Observer, and receiving royalties on the sale of cricket bats bearing his signature. This anachronistic citadel of privilege seemed near collapse last week. An advisory committee recommended a change in the rules that doubtless will...
...cannot offer training for even the ordinary GCE. Parents and children loudly call them "dumping grounds for duds." Class-conscious Britons feel that "dud" schools spell failure, not to mention the danger of a lower-class accent for their children. To avoid eleven-plus disaster, parents lavish prizes of cash, bicycles and transistor radios on the kids to make them cram harder. Recalling her mother's expression when she failed, one girl says: "I might have been telling her that I was having a baby." Many parents buy their way out of eleven-plus failure by spending...
...last year and will soon come through with another 4,000 Ibs. of rolling gratitude. She also gets $2,500 a week and her guest-appearance fee is $10,000. Her allowance is $20 a week. She is as frugal as Scrooge's grand mother with the tangible cash in her purse, but with checks and charge accounts she is like Mrs. Everyman: she charges things and writes checks as if Parker Brothers had invented the game. And in the world she lives in, they probably...
...holding company would have a good base for expansion: some $60 million in cash for spending. In fact, the plan is so promising that other railroads are considering taking the track into holding companies...