Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shredded Feat. In Metropolis, Ill., Carl Bock, 19, held up Fitch's Dime Store, got away with a bag full of cash, was fleeing through a parking lot when his pistol fired into the bag, scattering money in all directions...
When the life-confronters return, Zellidja Foundation trustees judge the best reports, pass out awards-another measly $70-$90 in cash, plus the privilege of doing the whole thing again. For next year, the trustees are uneasily trying to decide whether to give Zee scholarships to girls. Mused one Zellidja officer: "The girls would like to have a try, but how many French families would like their daughters to hitchhike around the world...
...Spain, meanwhile, on the set of Solomon and Sheba, Tyrone Power's funeral marked a beginning, not an end, to trouble. Now that United Artists had decided not to cash in on a $2,500,000 insurance policy and pull out of the picture, problems piled up. Should they use a double to finish the scenes Ty had left undone? At least 50 applicants asked for the job. Even the final decision to hire Brynner and start again from scratch was plagued with difficulties. Stockier than Ty and almost 3 in. shorter, Yul would need all his costumes made...
Producers have long tried to find a way of escaping the power of the Manhattan drama critics. In recent years they have found a lifesaver: theater parties. Critical condemnation can still be fatal, but more and more shows cheerfully survive a panning, thanks to theater-party cash...
...system is the invention of Bill and Ruth Marantette, a young engineering, couple from Columbia Falls (pop. 1,232), Mont. They started work three years ago in a garage workshop with $2,500 in savings, an $1,800 loan, plus further cash put up by Topp when it bought the invention. The major objective of the Marantettes was to eliminate the complex, expensive computers used in previous control systems. Such computers cost $60,000 and up, need trained engineers to program and manage their operations; every instruction in a process must be turned into a mathematical equation, which...