Word: cash
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
According to the National-Zeitung, some of the money is being reinvested in profitable European companies. In one such deal, the Trujillos bought 70% control of Geneva's Banque Genevoise de Commerce et Credit. They also put $4,500,000 in cash into a new Luxembourg holding company called Societe Holding Bancaire et Financiere Europeene S.A. To the company's other founders, the Trujillos were known merely as the "Paris Group...
...greenbacks and haggled over the odds with Houston oilmen in embroidered shirts. A volunteer comedian told ancient jokes to try to keep tension down as the crowd awaited the biggest rodeo event in years: a matched roping contest between two champion lariat handlers. The stakes were $3,700 in cash, a share of the bets, and undisputed claim to being the best calf roper in the world...
...rude surprise. Through bunk and ballyhoo, they had for decades been turning sows' ears into silk purses. Now they had found a silk purse that had no desire to become a sow's ear. The girl did not want to be exploited, squeezed, and stuffed with cash. Joan eventually signed with a little outfit called Vanguard, which is now a considerably bigger outfit called Vanguard...
...Music at Cash Registers. Around the country, corporate economists are hedging their earlier predictions of a slump. Said Ford's Henry Ford II: "I don't know of a single businessman who has talked in terms of a recession next year. That kind of talk has come from the economists. But you don't even hear so much of it from them any more." The automakers, of course, have more to cheer about than other businessmen: October's sales of 728,500 U.S.-made cars were the highest for any month in history (and more than...
Call for Help. Old Town's turnaround began three years ago, when Chairman James H. McGraw Jr., 69,* installed his son James III, 34, as president and brought in as general manager, Marshall Mazer, 41, an ace operating man who had previously headed National Cash Register's research planning board. After analyzing Old Town's cost and price structure, Mazer dropped many money-losing special-order products, raised prices on others enough to bring a profit. "Small companies," says he, "so often don't even know what their products cost them...