Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...individualists. The colonists were so unimpressed by the Revolution that one-third of them sided with Britain. At Valley Forge, George Washington wrote that patriotic idealism could not inspire his ragged, ill-trained army, that it must be toughened by "a prospect of interest or some reward." He meant cash. Only well after victory did the shaky American nation burst forth with an optimistic self-image based on the idea that the humane spirit of 18th century enlightenment could be fully realized for the first time anywhere. General Washington called himself "a citizen of the great republic of humanity...
...Pennsylvania Railroad special train, or in some 200 chartered buses (at $8.50 a head, round trip from New York). Mob financing came easily: when an antiwar ad ran in the New York Times recently, Bellinger & Co. quickly called each of the more than 200 signers and tapped them for cash. More money came in through box-office receipts from speeches by Mailer and Rap Brown, while individual contributions ranging as high as $5,000 in cash helped fill the till. The Mob also made money by selling green and white antiwar pennants, buttons and high-camp posters. One, "Join...
...been translated into 36 languages. Last year his leftist writings and political novels won him the $28,000 Lenin Peace Prize for exposing "American intervention against the Guatemalan people." Last week his whole body of work won him the Nobel Prize for Literature, carrying with it a $60,000 cash award...
Gilt-Edged Load. Intra depositors with accounts of $77,500 or more will be paid off with stock in the new investment company; smaller depositors are to get half their money back in cash within three years, half of it as stock. The smallest (less than $3,100) Lebanese depositors have already been repaid in cash, through a total of $15.5 million in loans from the Lebanese cen tral bank...
...long-blocked road to Intra's resurrection finally opened after British auditors found that the bank, though short of cash, was so loaded with gilt-edged investments ($217 million worth) as to be a sound long-term venture. A new Cabinet under Lebanese Prime Minister Rashid Karami fired a committee that was irreconcilably split over whether to salvage or liquidate the bank, named another that dickered with Kid der, Peabody. The key to the rescue deal was winning the consent of Intra's major creditors, notably that of Kuwaiti Prime Minister Jaber al Ahmed as Sabah, whose countrymen...