Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colombo, the stores were packed with luxury goods, the streets jammed with cars, the sidewalks filled with smiling people and saffron-robed Buddhist monks under black umbrellas. In the lush countryside there were signs of the paralyzing drought that had lasted for months. But the island's cash products-tea, rubber, coconuts, rice-still found a ready world market...
...Southern California (three males, one female) 195 to 65. By winning its second straight victory (fortnight ago the girls beat Notre Dame 230 to 110), Barnard nailed a spot on the next program, on April 12 (v. the University of Minnesota), will stay on until defeated. The only cash prizes: $1,500 for the Barnard scholarship fund, $500 for Loser U.S.C.-both from Sponsor General Electric. Participants get no money at all. No cash...
Secret of such astonishing returns is Hammer's easy access to cash and quickie production methods. To launch a film, tiny (160 employees) Hammer borrows from Columbia Pictures, which owns 49% of Hammer's studios in Windsor. Production is fast (average: six weeks...
...treasury of $10 million. Chesler took control by putting up $1,000,000, plus $2,500,000 from millionaire cronies such as Baltimore Colts' Owner Carroll Rosenbloom. ("Who wouldn't pay $1,000,000 to get control of $10 million?" asks Chesler.) With Universal's cash, Chesler bought Baltimore's American Totalisator, which owns and leases 80% of the racetrack "Tote" systems that automatically figure and post bets, odds and winnings. By swapping stock, Universal later acquired General Register Corp. (ticket machines for movies and racetracks) and C. P. Clare & Co. (electronic relays). The company, then...
...company into Florida real estate, in mid-1957 picked up another 520,000 shares at $7.15 each, and went to work to expand the company. General's earnings rose from $2.1 million in 1957 to $6.6 million in 1958, or $2.80 a share. Yet this is not cash on hand. When General sells an $895 lot for $10 down and $10 a month, it counts the full profit on the sale as current profit, even though it will not receive it all for 8Jr years. To bolster its cash position and permit it to expand, it is closing...