Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cheaper to slip a Dio mobster a few grand than to get stink bombs hurled into trucks or emery powder sneaked into motor oil. In recent years, armed with "paper local" labor-union charters obtained with the friendly conspiracy of Teamster Big Wheel Jimmy Hoffa, Dio collected wads of cash from employers in return for promising freedom from strikes, picket lines and other union nuisances...
...possible avenue of approach for Krishnamachari would be .a request that the U.S. create a "standby fund" of from $600 million to $800 million, which India would use as its currency backing while drawing on sterling reserves in London for ready cash...
...million into new residential mortgage loans, hoped that the resulting construction would help keep unemployment next winter from exceeding the postwar high of 400,000 reached in March 1955. And the government, preparing for an election that may come as early as next spring, readied legislation to provide cash advances to farmers with unsold grain, higher pensions for veterans, widows, and the aged. These measures might help keep the economy bubbling, but would also contribute to the pressure on prices...
CREDIT SELLING will be tried next year for first time by J. C. Penney Co., biggest U.S. chain of junior department stores (1956 sales: $1.3 billion) and last major holdout for cash-on-the-barrelhead. It will try installment plan in several stores, use Penney credit in all 1,690 stores if test lures more customers and brings in more money than it costs...
...total agricultural equities (all assets minus all liabilities) rose by $8 billion to an all-time high of $157.3 billion. In every single category, farmers increased their net worth. Livestock values rose almost 5%, machinery 3%, household goods more than 4%. Even farmers' cash deposits, bond holdings and other investments grew bigger, in some categories as little as 0.6%, in others as much as 6%. The biggest gain was in the farmer's biggest asset: his land, whose value last year jumped $6.8 billion to a record $109.5 billion...