Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kernels of the 1962-63 Broadway season have been heating up for months now, and next week the corn will start to pop. At the box offices of unopened shows, giddy daredevils are lining up and waving cash. Prudent selectors are still going to the best of the shows that have survived from last season...
...barbed Plutarchian salute: "We will meet again at Philippi." Cracked Kerr: "I hope we will meet in Washington before that." Occasionally, Kerr got as good as he gave. When Gore referred to "the liquidity position of the U.S. corporations," Kerr loftily called for a dictionary. Gore politely rephrased it: "Cash position," he said. "Oh," exclaimed Multimillionaire Kerr, "I know what that is." "I dare say," purred Gore...
...million last year. Yet, like almost all big city banks, the Chase is fighting a stubborn profit squeeze. Reason: rising costs and stiffening competition. The competition comes not only from other savings institutions but from a new generation of corporation treasurers who, instead of putting their idle cash into banks, earn more interest on it by buying commercial paper and U.S. Treasury bills. Says Rockefeller: "We in the city banks need a broader base in retail banking...
Rosy-hued as all this seemed, some Japanese businessmen were skeptical. The Russians are generally reluctant to pay for imports in cash, prefer instead to swap off such raw materials as oil, coal and metals. At the moment. Japanese industry is overstocked with raw materials. And Japanese businessmen have not yet forgotten the disappointing results of their nation's last trade treaty with Russia. After signing the agreement with much fanfare two years ago, the Soviets began to shovel their own products into Japan as fast as possible while delaying acceptance of Japanese goods by endless haggling over prices...
...repelled by the island's national custom-a test of courage in which peasants, competing for a cash prize, see how long they can hang from the neck before cutting themselves down. If they wait too long they strangle to death. It is, after all, a bit like bullfighting; and besides, to get the rock lobster contract he must seem simpdtico to the proud Bam-bas-Quincy family, whose wealth dominates the island. Finally, Ben Smith sees what Author Ellin's cluttered symbolism has been thundering about all along: U.S. commerce and Santo Stefano cruelty...