Word: cash
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...workers are now back in their hamlets, and local officials have moved quickly to care for refugees and begin reconstruction of houses. In Tay Ninh province, building materials and food supplies arrived as soon as the Communists were routed from Long My, and cash payments of $42 were made at once to each homeless family. The Communists made a major effort to cut the corps' road system, mostly by blowing up bridges, but all but one of the corps' major roads have been kept open, with no break lasting longer than 24 hours...
With all the precision of a well-planned military maneuver, the National Cash Register Company of Dayton last week held meetings with 50,000 businessmen in 120 North American cities, along with press conferences in such overseas commercial centers as London, Paris, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Sydney and Hong Kong. In New York City's new Madison Square Garden, where the principal meeting took place, NCR Chairman Robert S. Qelman, 58, explained the reason for what NCR described as a 48-hour saturation program. Beginning in September, announced Oelman, NCR will start delivering a new, third-generation computer system, the Century...
...official said that John G. Morrill, the Coop's general manager, stated last week that an increase to an 8 1/2 per cent rebate on cash purchases, and a 6 1/2 per cent rebate on credit purchases, is "conceivable." Neither spokesman expects the hike will come before the Coop's fiscal year ends on June...
...dire need of cash, he was rescued by the Teamsters Union, which proffered him a $2,000,000 loan. Soon after, he flailed the Kennedys for "railroading" the Teamster chief. Under the headline, GOD BARRED BY HOFFA'S JAILERS, he recently castigated prison authorities for returning devotional material that some nuns had sent to Convict Hoffa. He explained his own devotion to Hoffa. "As is this newspaper," he wrote, "the Teamsters are concerned with mercy, charity and helping the average citizen of the U.S. gain the highest possible living standards...
European Delays. Ironically, it was the Europeans who thought up the idea of an air bus-only to fumble away their chances to cash in on it first. Technicians from Scandinavian Airlines broached the notion at the 1963 Paris Air Show. It was four years later when France, Britain and West Germany got together to form a manufacturing consortium to build an air bus. Their ef forts have met with one delay after another, and the British have yet to build even a test model of the RollsRoyce engine that is supposed to power the plane. As matters stand...