Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sleuths of the Department for Struggle, etc. raided a shop operated by one Anna Lazaryeva, discovered $9,250 worth of yarn, 150 sweaters and $7,500 in cash; a few doors away a second shop was discovered producing 100 blouses a day. The operators, said Krokodil, suffer from no shortage: state textile-industry employees swipe huge amounts of wool from government plants, resell it at a tidy profit to black-marketeers...
...days, London and Paris were headquarters for the hot-eyed young African nationalists in search of learning, eager audiences and cash for the worthy cause back home. Today they still stop off in such European capitals long enough to present their independence demands to colonial ministers, but more often than not, they are headed westward to a new mecca of funds and sympathy...
There are problems ahead, admits Eugene Fitzgibbons, Telemeter's Canadian boss. The cost of collecting the cash from coin boxes in subscribers' homes is still uncertain; the reliability of the coin boxes themselves is still unproven. No one is yet sure of the public's long-run taste in home movies or sports shows, nor can anyone be certain how business will fall off when families move out of town for the summer...
...bonds with 4¼% interest, the legal maximum imposed by Congress, hoped to sell at least $500 million worth, offered up to $1.5 billion. Only $370 million worth was sold. Another offer of $2 billion in 25-month notes was oversubscribed, thus more than meeting the Treasury's cash needs of $2.5 billion. Said a top Treasury official: "The response to the long-term issue shows conclusively that we simply cannot sell in this market with this ceiling. It is important new evidence that we need to remove the ceiling if we are to manage the debt properly...
...smaller company. On the bright side is the fact that Douglas has already substantially written off costs of its DC-8, has thus taken its licks early and is in a good competitive position to profit on jet sales from now on. The company also has plenty of cash ($35 million) and working capital ($154 million), and recently tied up with France's Sud-Aviation (TIME, Feb. 22) to market the twin-jet Caravelle, thus enabling itself to cover both the long-and short-range jet field...