Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they are in the U.S. For the first time we have a Prime Minister [Adnan Menderes-April 23] with initiative, who thinks of the future, and your magazine never misses a chance to pick on him. If Mr. Adnan Menderes had waited for his safes to be overloaded with cash before he started acting, stagnancy, which has been Turkey's misfortune in the past centuries, would have continued and prevented any improvement. Turkey needs more and more American...
...than 5.5% of its swelling gross national product to its own defense. Britain, despite inflationary troubles, contributes 10.1%, the U.S. 11.6%. ¶ Despite its failure to build its own army, West Germany, in the person of pfennig-pinching Finance Minister Fritz Schaffer, for months refused flatly to continue its cash contributions to the support of Allied troops in Germany. ¶ West Germany is receiving $1 billion worth of arms from the U.S. as a gift-but the only comments heard are complaints that the arms are obsolete. ¶Though Germany has accumulated $2.3 billion in gold and dollar reserves, though...
...Question. So the crowd put its cash on Needles-and at the start it was sorry. In the first fast dash past the grandstand, Needles was 16th in a field of 17. Jockey Dave Erb was as worried as his backers. Needles had let loose his bit, seemed uninterested in running. Up front, Calumet Farm's Fabius and Rex Ells worth's Terrang dueled for the lead...
...chalk players, naturally, had known it all along. As they queued up to cash their mutuel tickets (the favorite paid $5.20 for $2), they talked of another Kentucky tradition: "Never bet against the son of a Derby winner in a Derby." Needles' sire, Ponder, ran off with the Derby in 1949. And just to make the old saw stick, Ponder's sire, Pensive, turned the trick...
...show is the best way to become known. But this comes at a price: up to $500 for a fortnight's rent on the Left Bank, $750 or more on the right. In addition, the artist must usually crank out his own publicity, pay a critic (in cash or paintings) to write a catalogue preface, try to talk an aperitif manufacturer into serving free drinks. Even then the gallery pockets 20% to 33% of the sales...