Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clutters, then cold-bloodedly slaughtered them one by one, shooting each in the head with a shotgun held a few inches away. Then, after carefully collecting the fired shells, the killers hurried away with their skimpy loot: a portable radio, a pair of field glasses, about $40 in cash. Why did they murder the Clutters? Explained Hickock: "We didn't want any witnesses...
Where Black got that much ready cash is partly explained by a comfortable business transaction that he made in 1958. Black converted Chock Full O' Nuts from private ownership to public by selling 400,000 shares of the 720,000 he owned (out of 800,000 outstanding) at $15 a share. After taxes and brokers' fees, he cleared a neat $3,800,000. He still owns 33-5% of the stock, which was listed last week on the New York Stock Exchange at $46.50 a share. In his philanthropy, Black shows no less financial hustle. The one string...
Despite the drama surrounding it, however, Vanderbilt's contribution, made last week, accounted for only a quarter of the more than $10 million received by the Program since mid-November. Together, three well-timed donations brought the Program total, in cash and pledges...
Only one really caught Allyn's eye: "No relatives in the business." Patterson did not really mean it. But it was enough to persuade Allyn to start clerking at $20 a week, though friends told him that the cash register was a dead-end business-everybody...
This will be the biggest diversified textile plant equipped with U.S. machinery to be built anywhere outside the U.S. in a decade. The contract price is six times the total value of U.S. exports to Russia in 1958. Terms: cash on delivery...