Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Suite. Seven months after his arrival at Yuba, McGara merged the company with San Francisco's Portuguese-American Tin Co. Then, in return for lavish amounts of Yuba cash or stock, he successively bought a welding company, a steel fabricating mill, a Texas petrochemical firm, an Indiana crane manufacturer, an Ohio power toolmaker, and even his former employer, Adsco Industries. Within three heady years, Yuba boasted 17 operating divisions run from a plush suite of offices in San Francisco's new Crown Zellerbach Building. Carried away by McGara's predictions that Yuba's sales would soon...
...Paul's path to Damascus, camped out for a month in imitation of St. John the Baptist. But the prince collapsed and died before the honeymoon was over. Though his family accused Mary of murdering him by too many bedroom "fatigues," Mary inherited $4,000,000 in cash, several châteaux, and a few thousand choice acres of European soil...
...recommending and has provided the student body with complete information about them. Yet it is unfortunate that the Student Government Association decided not to run the drive in cooperation with the Harvard Combined Charities, since a combined effort would mean greater efficiency and would allow the Radcliffe drive to cash in on HCC publicity...
...call for parliamentary elections to strengthen his hand in the National Assembly so that eventually he can push through constitutional reforms. Members of the Gaullist U.N.R. (Union for the New Republic) have asked that the referendum and the elections be held at the same time so that they can cash in on the electoral profits of the Algerian peace. But De Gaulle has demurred. With an overwhelming 85% of the voters sure to vote for the settlement, he does not want the referendum clouded by any other issue...
...vast irony of collective agriculture is that if peasants were not allowed to raise and sell cash crops, Russia's food shortage would be catastrophic. Though their holdings amount to less than 4% of all arable land, individual peasants own 50% of all cows, 25% of the hogs, produce 65% of the potatoes and cabbage that are Russia's basic foods. European economists speculated last week that Nikita Khrushchev could still solve the farm problem in a single stroke. The solution: a threefold increase in the peasants' private plots...