Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Worker is one of eleven Communist periodicals still published in the U.S. Once a daily with 100,000 circulation, it now struggles into print only twice a week. It is a chronic beggar, surrounding its dialectic with incessant pleas for cash. Ads come hard. Its chief, and sometimes its only, account is Harry's Clothes Shop on Third Avenue, an establishment that knows an out-at-elbows tovarish when it sees one, and offers him suits for $10 to $15, alterations free. The Worker's editor is James Edward Jackson Jr., 48, a mustached man who rose...
...worth a Sunday paycheck? All season long, professional football's talent scouts study college games and run down tips, searching with an unsentimental eye for boys who can play the man's game in the pros. Last week, as they prepared to back their judgment with cash in the annual player draft, the scouts from both pro leagues took time out to compile a dream team of the nation's top prospects. TIME'S pro-picked All-America...
...little-known Texas insurance man named Troy Victor Post, 56, showed a clear and present advantage. Said a Bancorporation director: "Post's offer had something unique about it-money." Where most of the bidders offered complicated deferred-payment deals. Post unpocketed $69.5 million in ready cash. He quickly got First Western, which has assets of $612 million...
...wheeling deals are a habit with this shy Dallas millionaire, who in rimless glasses looks like a bookkeeper. His success does not involve Texas charm or high pressure, of which he has little, but simply his canny ability to fetch up more cash than anyone else. Troy Post's fortune is calculated to be at least $70 million, and he has amassed it almost wholly in the past 16 years by investing in the seemingly bland field of life insurance, where he has shown an eye for companies ready, in his words, "to take...
...formed subsidiary of mighty Aluminum Co. of America, which wants to do a little diversifying in a way that will also promote the use of aluminum construction. Alcoa gave Zeckendorf Property Corp. (an equal partnership between the British consortium and Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp Inc.) $10 million in cash, a 90% interest in Alcoa Urban Development Corp., and a note for $25.6 million payable within eleven years...