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Word: cashes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Evil Days. When it was called Massey-Harris, the firm captured a major, market in the late 1930s by coming out with the first self-propelled combine, began manufacturing tractors abroad after World War II, just in time to cash in on rising worldwide demand. But by 1956, poor management, complacency and half-hearted selling had put it far behind competitors. As sales fell, inventories rose so high that it just about ran out of cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Get-Up-Early Man | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...some question the spending of millions to search outer space? Can't they see we desperately need more inhabited countries to whom to give democracy and cash? There might even be farmers up there, and by adding a little to our taxes and raising the national debt limit a few more billions, we could subsidize them as we have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 2, 1959 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...Morocco at one time represented 10% of the entire foreign revenue of France. They were married in 1941. A tall, tough, humorous man, Paul Walter had both ideas and imagination. He gave away millions of francs, endowed hospitals from Paris to Istanbul, established the Zellidja Foundation, which offered tiny cash grants to young students on their pledge to travel widely and live by their wits (TIME, Dec. 1). He also had -with apparent prevision -strong feelings about the corruptibility of wealth, and therefore settled 30 billion francs on each of three children by a former marriage on condition that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: LAffaire Lacaze | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...President in normal times," said one of his own assistants, "but these are not normal times." The treasury was still running on a hand-to-mouth basis, collecting $2,500,000 a day in taxes, much of it in advance. One unexpected windfall: $3,270,170 in bonds and cash, left behind in a strongbox by Batista...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The Scolding Hero | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...Remunerative angina" results when the patient gets a reward for his illness. It may be only emotional-sympathy and pampering. Or it can be hard cash from insurance. (This form is becoming less common now that the companies have got wise and refuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Versatile Angina | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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