Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vaselli built the Way of Empire and much more. Like Crassus of old (who introduced the first fire-fighting service to Caesar's Rome but always bought up threatened nearby properties dirt-cheap before dousing the flames), he picked up many a real-estate bargain from cash-short owners in the course of cutting through the Duce's grandiose streets and squares. By 1937 Vaselli was known as the "garbage baron" and "asphalt king." And when typhus broke out again in Rome, Mussolini blamed him. After a vast check, Vaselli took Mussolini early one morning to a Roman...
...Cash for Cotton. Khalil's stand against Communist attempts at penetration have been forthright. His Umma Party espouses "positive neutrality," and Khalil sees that it is exactly that. When the Russians offered to take the Sudan's unsold cotton crop last year in exchange for arms, Khalil replied bluntly that what he wanted was agricultural machinery, not tanks. "We're not going to fight anybody," he said. "The cotton market is just a few hundred yards from the Soviet embassy. They can walk there and buy any time they want. And they can pay cash...
...Sudan's last elections four years ago, is campaigning for "closer ties" with Egypt. His followers talk an anticolonial line that often slips over into outright anti-Westernism. El Azhari's main strength is in the cities in the north, while Khalil's speeches for water, cash and cotton go over well in the countryside...
PENN-TEXAS CORP. is dickering to sell its 46% stock interest in Fairbanks, Morse (almost all of which is pledged against short-term loans) to Rockwell Spring & Axle Co. Cash-shy Penn-Texas also sold its fourth subsidiary in two months, Tex-Penn Oil, to Judarth Corp...
...SLEUTHS can seize insurance policies of tax delinquents who leave U.S., ruled Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Setting precedent, court said that Government may claim cash-surrender value of two policies held by a West Virginia doctor who skipped to Canada after conviction on income tax evasion...