Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moscow the family of one Nina Ivanovna was brusquely told that Nina had been arrested at her job as manager of a state-owned secondhand store. The callers demanded all of Nina's valuables, and her terrified mother handed over a bag containing some 250,000 rubles in cash and government bonds. Fur-Cutter Aleksei Aleksandrov caved in at the sight of the dreaded secret police and surrendered 300,000 rubles in money and furs. One victim, finally, put in a timid call to the authorities, to ask if the night visitors were really official. Last week the "secret...
...also required to list the names of all organizations, with inclusive dates, to which he has belonged since he was 16 years old. On demand, he must give his present monthly income, the amount of cash deposited in banks and an estimate of the value of his other assets. Said a British applicant: "It made me feel like a refugee from Dragnet." In defense of the system a U.S. consul in The Netherlands said, "If we abolished the visa tomorrow, 20,000 Filipinos and 20,000 Italians would travel to the U.S. without a penny in their pockets...
...help keep Bolivia's social revolution out of the red-both financial and political-the U.S. has invested $150 million worth of grant aid in support of the government since the 1952 uprising. Through the years the U.S. persistently refrained from handing out cash to the nationalized, immensely inefficient tin mines, even though they provide Bolivia with 67% of its export income. Last week the U.S. was forced to reverse its stand...
...Cash & Good Will. Consul Emmett M. Coxson was so impressed by Kayira's "journey of unbelievable hardship" that he quickly wrote Skagit for aid. While the boy spent hours in the U.S.I.S. library boning up on algebra, Skagit's students raised more than $1,100 to guarantee clothing and round-trip fare. Schoolteacher William Atwood, father of seven, offered a free home at the Atwoods' roomy farmhouse in nearby Bayview. Mrs. Atwood quashed the only unpleasantness in the entire affair. Huffed one neighbor: "What if he wants to take your daughter to a dance?" Replied Mrs. Atwood...
...that he hopes to build a plant to dry fish caught in the Rio Madeira, sell them for 20? to 30? for 2.2 Ibs. in the Amazon basin to replace the imported dried codfish that sells for $1. Furthermore, the rubber and Brazil nut trees soon will begin bearing cash crops. Says Jungle Jim: "This is pioneering the way we did out West 100 years ago. It's the most exciting place on earth." With the success of his plantation assured, Choate is building a brick house so that his family can join him. But no matter what...