Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head of the Negro Voters League, "it's a choice between evils." Often Negro leaders-happy enough to be bargained with at all-fail to get firm promises for the choice they make. Says Southern Regional Council Executive Director Leslie Dunbar: "They just haven't learned to cash in on their power yet. It doesn't make any sense in cities like Atlanta, where Negroes have strategic power, to wait until 1962 till Negro policemen can arrest whites." But at least there are Negroes on Atlanta's police force-and the Negro's vote...
...bedrooms, two baths. (A house on the golf course, which snakes through the community, cost $1,450 more.) Both FHA and bank financing were offered, with monthly payments varying from $73 to $114. Sun City customers were not rich, but Webb found that more than half wanted to pay cash. The purchasers were usually men of solid substance-former engineers, successful salesmen, foremen, dentists, small businessmen, schoolteachers-with money in the bank, often as the result of selling the house back home...
...astonishment of all West Germany, the Willy H. Schlieker KG company, which embraces four of Schlieker's 23 firms and operates his highly automated Hamburg shipyard, admitted that it could not raise the cash to meet $3,500,0001n debts due at the end of July. The firm appealed to a Hamburg court for a form of temporary receivership aimed at avoiding bankruptcy. In part, Schlieker's difficulties simply reflected the troubled state of the whole German shipbuilding industry, which is increasingly hard pressed by competition from state-aided shipyards in other countries. But Schlieker's real...
...boomtown flavor hung in the humid air. Without pausing even to examine a copy of the Post, Hous ton's leading daily, Newhouse sought out its co-proprietor, Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby, and put in a magnificently reckless bid. Would she sell him the paper for, say, $40 million cash? No, said Mrs. Hobby politely, she would...
...sits on the edge of a chair; and he has the attitude of a man who is just about to dash for a train. He is a chronic door opener and reacher-for-the-check. He generally keeps several $100 bills in his wallet so that he can pay cash for the dinner tab wherever he eats...