Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...away the carcasses of 39 tigers, 18 rhinos and four bears-plus one unfortunate leopard, run over by the royal mail van. Last week another royal Briton, Queen Elizabeth II, flew into Katmandu from India, and for George's granddaughter, impoverished Nepal (per capita income estimated at $70 cash a year) planned the most elaborate one-day shikar in its history...
...bath house. On the first week end, purchasers bought 272 of the neat and gay pastel houses-and the flow has not stopped since. In 1960 the Webb company sold 1,472 houses and 262 apartments for about $17.5 million-and 60% of the sales were for cash. This year the company is building a second batch of slightly larger houses that sell for from $9,150 to $14,550 and is planning similar developments in California and Florida...
...include radios for all size airplanes. Last year the company bought out a propeller maker, Dayton's McCauley Industrial Corp. Foreign sales accounted for 19% of Cessna's private-plane airplane sales in 1960, and it expects even bigger foreign sales in the years ahead. To cash in on this market, Cessna last year bought a 49% interest in France's Avion Max Holste, which makes utility planes. Currently, it is negotiating with Argentina to set up a Cessna assembly plant there to help supply the South American market...
Wilson has covered similar territory before: Live with Lightning (1949) was about an atomic physicist who quits big business for the academy, and My Brother, My Enemy (1952) renewed the conflict between hard cash and gentle idealism. Author Wilson, now 47, first turned to professional writing before World War II, while working for a doctorate in physics at Columbia University under famed Enrico Fermi. Days he measured the mes on; nights he ground out magazine stories and suspense novels (Footsteps Behind Her, Stalk the Hunter}. Finding his dou ble life profitable but pointless, Wilson ended both careers, later moved...
...Seminarians clove together so closely that elitism seemed more dangerous than the fragmentation Riesman's proposal was to have combatted. The Seminars came off well, partly be-they excited students and partly because the money was so clearly earmarked for Freshmen that objections never got very far. The cash was not available for things like more section...