Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...African nation of Ghana began life with high hopes that Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah and his ruling party would show enough statesmanship to win the cooperation of the minorities in Ashanti and the Northern Territories. But the richer, more highly educated Ashantis, controlling the country's one big cash crop (cocoa), have agitated so articulately for upcountry rights that Nkrumah's less literate supporters, unable to talk them down, have resorted to highhanded repression. By the most arbitrary of these measures the government deported two Ashanti Moslem leaders on the ground that their presence was "not conducive...
Before being wafted to paradise by visions of Soviet "aid without strings," the Syrians might profitably examine Egypt's two-year experience of doing business with the Communists. Gamal Abdel Nasser mortgaged Egypt's one big cash crop -cotton-to pay for Soviet-bloc arms. But in midseason the Soviet bloc suddenly stopped buying, leaving the Egyptians with more than one-third of last year's crop unsold. The desperate Egyptians had to unload the rest at cut-rate prices. When the Egyptians found themselves strapped for hard currencies, their Russian friends let them have some Western...
CURRENCY TROUBLE between cash-heavy Germany and cash-shy Britain is growing worse. For September, West German reserves of gold and foreign exchange will show jump of about $600 million to $5.9 billion, more than 25% ahead of last year's total. Sterling area's reserves will show dip of $282 million to $1.85 billion, lowest since...
...they waited in a Santiago jail for the final decision on their asylum appeal, Antonio's cash quickly eased the rigors of incarceration. The cells were provided with comfortable beds; there was wine aplenty, after-hours dinner parties for their friends, and free use of the penitentiary telephones. Jorge & Co. paid some of Chile's highest-priced lawyers at least $56,000 to fight Argentina's extradition attempts...
Diamadopoulos and Gianetti also agreed to offer the customary two per cent cash discount to operators for payment of bills within 15 days, although this deduction was not originally available to stand businessmen...