Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passengers climb aboard, the driver collects their $65 balance. In cash. "Travelers checks are too hard to handle," the voice on the phone had said. Only 20 people get on; the rest are waving goodbye. Instead of regular rows of seats two sofas face the aisle up front. Beyond that, amidships, is a card table, one side supported by a length of nylon rope tied to a metal ceiling rack. A long, cushioned sleeping platform, raised about 2 ft. off the floor, fills the whole rear half of the bus. The ponytailed bus driver (there are two drivers aboard) tells...
...Balti more. When the bus finally pulls into New York City we are close to three days late. But no one is eager to say goodbye. It does not seem to matter that the whole experience seems as corny as a 1940s movie. Roughing it, sharing everything from spare cash to toothbrushes, has formed bonds unheard of on Amtrak. Jerry, Ted and Susie stay aboard, heading for the last stop in Boston. As the bus pulls out, the traveler, walking away in the snow, hands jammed into pockets against the cold, finds that someone has slipped her the jack...
...newcomer. Frustrated in his bold designs, Rocky decided that he needed to build his own political base. Few Republicans wanted to challenge New York's Democratic Governor Averell Harriman in 1958. Rockefeller was the answer to the state party's prayers: a new face with plenty of cash. Then came the surprise. This hitherto untested, pampered and occasionally standoffish scion of one of America's greatest fortunes turned out to be a political natural. Plunging into crowds on the sidewalks of New York, devouring whatever ethnic food was thrust into his hand, greeting everybody with a hearty...
...given up for one reason or another. Last week Gyllenhammar got his biggest setback yet; opposition by Volvo shareholders forced him to scrap a plan to sell 40% of the company to the Norwegian government and a group of private investors in return for $225 million in cash and some potentially lucrative exploration and drilling rights in the North...
Chafin was unable to reveal the identities of the suspects, who are both age 16 or under. Both youths have been released from police custody, one on $100 cash bond and the other on personal recognizance to a parent. Both have been charged with armed robbery...