Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stockholder Sol Dann, a Detroit lawyer and self-appointed watchdog for Chrysler's stockholders who has long been publicly charging "corruption" against Chrysler brass, announced that he would file suit on behalf of the stockholders against Chrysler's management to see if any more cash might be recovered...
...owned by Jews, and they are closed because it is Yom Kippur, the most important of Jewish holidays. This novel presents a similar but even more poignant dilemma. The heroine's older sister has got herself pregnant by her boss, a married man; she tries desperately to cash a check for an abortion, but finds she cannot because Franklin Delano Roosevelt has just closed the banks...
...such farmer is wiry, half-naked Jagjit, sixtyish, whose 20 acres of Punjab sugar cane, wheat and pulses brought him a cash income of $485 last year. For weeks Jagjit worked night and day carrying buckets to save his half-acre patch of cane from the searing Indian sun; last week the violent onset of monsoon rains threatened to wash away his fields. Jagjit cannot afford to buy chemical fertilizer. He uses cow dung to manure his fields, but only during the monsoon, when the dung cannot be dried; the rest of the time he collects it in great mounds...
...David Bakalar, chairman and president of Transitron Electronic Corp. of Wakefield, Mass., have run up a stock fortune of $307 million (another $34.4 million has been realized in cash) on an initial investment of $200,000 made by Leo, 47, a plastics manufacturer at the time. The investment was backing for an improved gold-bonded diode developed by David, 35, who has a Ph.D. from M.I.T. Since then, the company has grabbed 10% of the semiconductor market (second among independents only to Tex as Instruments), last fiscal year ran up sales of $30.9 million, which the Bakalar brothers expect...
DISNEYLAND INVESTMENT by American Broadcasting-Paramount has paid off handsomely. Company sold its 35% stock interest, purchased for $500,000 in 1954, to Walt Disney Productions for $7,500,000 in cash and notes...