Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Protestant ministers in the U.S., two-thirds are in debt, and a large percentage of ministers' wives have to take outside jobs. The U.S. Protestant minister's average cash salary comes to $4,432 a year for a 60-to 80-hour week (New England ministers, the lowest paid, get only $4,018). Automobile expenses largely come from the ministers' own pockets-their average travel allowance is less than $300 a year...
Because of production lead time, the actual cash payments from the Pentagon went up more slowly, reaching $38.7 billion for the year, v. the $39.1 billion expected. The shortfall throws that much more actual spending over into fiscal 1959. Last week the Defense Department scratched the most recent estimate for 1959 spending of $40.5 billion and wrote in $40.7 billion, probably only the first of several upward revisions...
...scramble for top space leads to all sorts of methods to gain preferential treatment. Some companies resort to toasters, TV sets and other gifts (though rarely straight cash) to get the edge over competing brands. But most companies depend on their traveling sales representatives to wangle more space for their products. It is considered perfectly legitimate to help store managers "arrange" their shelves, even though the "arrangement" often winds up with a competitor's product buried out of sight and reach. Such sharp practices are gradually dying out because companies can work a much better deal with top management...
...lesser shows, in which the winner gets a staggering list of prizes, the product itself gets only a quickie mention, and the viewer gets only a flash look. Furthermore, to break onto one of these shows, a company often has to make an under-the-table payoff in cash or merchandise to the show's producer or to a middleman...
Quick Change. In Denver, Andrew Chavez Jr. forgot his change in a bar, went back for it, said, "Give me my money," was acquitted of robbery after the bartender cleaned out the cash register, handed...