Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...success in the supertanker business is collateral. Like the other independents?a group that soon came to be known as the Argonauts?Onassis practiced a clever technique of self-financing. Because the oil companies were unwilling to tie up cash reserves in new hulls, he only asked them for long-term (seven years or more) charters to haul their crude. Armed with the charters, he made firm contracts with shipbuilders, banks and insurance concerns, pointing out that the new tankers, with life spans of up to 25 years, would earn back their cost in roughly a third of their working...
...pinch resulted from a combination of factors, some within Humphrey's control and some beyond it. During his first month as an announced candidate, he raised nearly $1,000,000. Most of this money, plus additional cash gleaned later in the spring, was largely devoured-"wasted," say some of his aides-in primary contests where Humphrey was not even officially entered. The aim was to reduce Robert Kennedy's momentum. Among the gambits used was the quiet funneling of money to McCarthy headquarters via labor unions. Humphrey's organization was so sloppy or overconfident during that period...
...youths ran off with Corey's wallet, but left it in Christ Church on Garden Street after removing $550 in cash. Corey recovered negotiable traveler's checks worth $200 which the youths did not take from the wallet...
...company which flies food into Biafra under contract to the Red Cross, and guns in under contract to the Biafran government (cash in advance), is called North American airlines, and is run by an American named Hank Wharton: nicknamed "Hanky-Panky, cause that's the only kind of business he'd want," McGuire says. Unofficial headquarters of the outfit is the Hotel Tivoli in Lisbon, where "Hanky-Panky" lives in Room 228--a room registered in the name of "a little mini-skirt with red hair"--and his chief assistant resides...
Miss Batts also brought up the possibility of a meal-rates committee to study the feasibility of Radcliffe students not paying full board. This might mean the use of meal tickets, cash or charging on a single meal basis. It also could only be a fact-finding committee...