Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government had taken eight weeks to lay its case, with an endless parade of evidence that Rojas in office had acquired cash, cattle, and "one-thousandth of all the vast land area of Colombia." Nothing was forgotten-not even a 1936 army fitness report on Major Rojas: "His business instincts carry him to the point of sordidness. Temperament: teetotaler. Conduct: a ladies...
...author of these desperate verses, a notorious California road agent known as Black Bart, removed "that Box" at the risk of life and limb from a westbound stagecoach on the afternoon of July 25, 1878-and found inside it a mere $600 in cash and kind. Poor old Bart. He was born a century too soon. In 1959 he would have found, in nearly every parlor in the land, a box from which any man with enough strength to pull a hair trigger and enough chin to hold a hat string can apparently remove as much as a million dollars...
...flock of lesser companies planning Florida land developments. Universal Controls, an electronics maker, moved from 84 to 97. Both stocks have more than doubled since Jan. 1. Last week Universal announced a four-for-one stock split, plus a 10% stock dividend and a boost in the yearly cash dividend from $1 to $1.20 on the present stock. General Development leaked word of a three-for-one split, planned after the company distributes a 25% stock dividend...
...gimmicks to lure credit customers. Taking a cue from the successful Diners' Club (TIME, Sept. 22), some 200 banks have shuffled themselves into the credit-card game. Last week Georgia's ten hard-selling Citizens & Southern National Banks popped out the latest variation, advertised "Instant MONEY-Cash Loans Within 20 Seconds." The C. & S. device is a charge card that enables one to draw immediate cash up to thousands of dollars from any C. & S. teller's window, or to charge consumer goods at 1,000 Georgia stores. At month's end, the cardholder gets...
...businessman's imagination. Last month Amarillo's First National Bank wheeled out a car credit card to buck the big auto financing agencies. The holder presents the card in the auto showroom to prove that he has the bank's approval for a loan, like a cash buyer can drive out in a new car within minutes...