Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comedies. It must be grouped with the bad ones because it writes most of its scenes in duplicate, smudging some of them to boot; makes most of its jokes in triplicate, and should never make half of them at all; and seems to confuse the typewriter bell with a cash register's. But Come Blow Your Horn does squat head and shoulders above a number of recumbent rivals: beyond a lively production, it manages to keep going; it has some fresh and funny lines and some diverting scenes and characters...
Under the new system, the Rand is equal to 10 shillings ($1.40), and can be divided into 100 cents. Already the government has spent $21 million converting old-type cash registers and accounting machines to the new decimal system. But the chief beneficiaries of the changeover are South Africa's schoolchildren. For 135 years. South African schoolboys, like their brothers in England and the empire, have had to learn mathematics twice-first in the manner of the civilized world, which counts on ten fingers and decimalizes accordingly, and then in the English manner, which counts laboriously...
...decides to organize a paramilitary operation of his own. Objective: a bank. A riffle through the army's records discovers seven competent but crooked officers and other ranks (Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes, Kieron Moore, Terrence Alexander, Norman Bird)-all cashiered out, all out of cash. Guaranteed ?100,000 apiece, these amiable scalawags form an unregistered corporation called "Cooperative Removals, Ltd." From there out, the picture becomes simultaneously a sort of rollicking Rififi and a hilarious parody of the last skaty-eight milidramas from Blimey. The major organizes his gang as a commando, runs...
...Should Command? Corpsmen would go in teams of five to ten with a topnotch leader. The GHQ: a small, new Government agency, probably headed by President Kennedy's brother-in-law, R. Sargent Shriver Jr., 45, a Chicago businessman. The agency would supply cash, corpsmen and coordination for the two main arms of the operation. In the U.S., private groups, such as foundations, universities, or the American Friends Service Committee, would propose projects abroad. In the host country, a binational board would have power to pass on projects and set local corps policy. The estimated cost is roughly...
...suits that followed G.E.'s 1949 antitrust conviction for monopolizing electric bulbs. The suits, which totaled $104 million, were settled for $1,395,000. Just in case things go against G.E. Treasurer John D. Lockton told the meeting, the giant electric company at the end of 1960 had cash assets totaling more than $400 million. "We are in excellent financial condition to take care of anything that we see happen," he said. G.E. stock, which had fallen $7. regained more than...