Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final, practical note of Enright's refusal to advance his protege any more cash, the tape runs...
...delivery; e.g., the all-expenses-paid vacation in Europe provided no hotel room, only a flight to Paris and home the next day. There was evidence that contestants on certain shows had signed away their prizes before going on, undertaking to accept their TV winnings for far less cash than their real value. The best defense that network officials and their spring-legged pressagents could make in private was that the quiz shows were not really crooked but only hippodromed, like a wrestling match; i.e., they merely rig the questions so that any contestant whose weak spots are known...
...shared in a disreputable episode of Claverton's youth. Visitor No. 2 is Maisie Mont joy (now respectably renamed Mrs. Carghill), a onetime chorus girl whom the young Claverton seduced; in true Victorian melodramatic fashion, Claverton's father had squelched her breach-of-promise suit with cash. Now she accuses her former lover of having posed as a man of the world during their affair, just as he has since posed as an elder statesman: "You'll still be playing a part in your obituary, whoever writes...
...Cash Needed. But IMF does need cash. In boom, recession or crisis, the trend is toward increasing demand. Since Suez the fund has passed out in hard money loans some $2.7 billion, or two-thirds of all its outlay since the IMF was organized. Moreover, quotas have become unrealistic. Booming West Germany with $5.8 billion in foreign exchange and gold reserves is assessed only $330 million; the United Kingdom, with reserves of only $3 billion has a $1.3 billion quota...
...remarkable aspects of the boomlet is that it was inspired abroad, but has since become a plump domestic business. Four years ago, 99% of the fancy foods was imported; today 40% is made in the U.S. Home-grown companies are cashing in in a dozen different ways. Manhattan's gilt-edged Café Chambord has warmed its cash registers by freezing its delicacies for retail sale, offers a full French line, from single portions of sauce Périgourdine ($1.25) and pompano Véronique ($4.50), to complete dinners for eight at $100 (sea food au gratin, duck...