Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign-aid bill. The House, as Ike knew, had already sliced the Administration's last-ditch request by more than half a billion to authorize a foreign-aid program of $3.9 billion for this year. Now in the second go-around it was about to vote the hard cash in an appropriation bill and was flirting with a tough $3.6 billion, recommended by its Appropriations Committee. Things looked so bad, explained Martin, that pushing for more might result in less. Far better to take the $3.6 billion, trust the Senate to raise the ante, and then try the House...
...relative merits of a tax on expenditure rather than on income-Gaitskell has long been distressed by "the refusal of well-to-do taxpayers to react to high taxation [of income] by cutting down their standard of living"-and of collecting inheritance taxes in property rather than in cash, a device which would have the advantage of depriving the heirs of any eventual appreciation in property values...
...career as one of Britain's top physicists, went to Moscow for a scientific conference. He never came back. In the months that followed, while Kapitsa himself lived in silence, the Western world's topmost scientists clamored furiously for his release. The Russians ended by paying hard cash to Cambridge University for the special laboratory Cambridge had built for the scientist to work in, but as to releasing Kapitsa, they would hear none...
...that it was moved up from 10 p.m. to the prime viewing hour of 7:50 p.m., and twelve more Reports are in the works for Britain. USIA is having the original six dubbed in five other languages (French, German, Spanish, Polish, Arabic). Whatever the language or the nationality, Cash aims his shows at one man with three children and a modest education, who lives in a little house just outside London and is employed as a sheet-metal worker for an automobile company. He is Cash's brother. Whenever a sequence becomes too specialized or complicated, Cash briskly...
...fantastic growth of the surrounding population-the very situation that led to the closing of Roosevelt Field -set the promotional and moneymaking gears of Real-Estate Tycoon William Zeckendorf to whirring. Why not build an integrated shopping, office and industrial center to cash in on the growth? Last week, unlike many a Zeckendorf production, this one was actually nearing completion...