Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canada, as in the U.S., government farm price-support programs have piled up mountains of butter and wheat. Last week Canada arranged two neat deals to sell part of the worrisome surplus behind the Iron Curtain for cash. To Red-run Czechoslovakia will go 300,000 lbs. of butter at 42½? a lb.-15½? less than the government's own purchasing price. For $19 million, grain-hungry Poland will get 10 million bu. of low-grade wheat...
POTATO PRICE QUIZ by the U.S. Agriculture Department flushed more evidence of market rigging (TIME, June 20). The Government charged Manhattan's Jacob Stern & Co. with virtually cornering the supply of cash potatoes on the New York Mercantile Exchange in February so that it could juggle prices. The shortage that made cornering easier is ending. Government forecasters expect that the summer crop may be 20% over last year...
...Short of cash but obviously enjoying his work, Harrison often modeled for pictures himself, posing as everything from a white slaver (with pith helmet) to an irate husband spanking his wife. On one project for one of his magazines, Harrison was picked up by New Jersey police (and released) for taking pornographic pictures: he had driven a carload of models to a Jersey golf course and had started taking pictures of them cavorting across the fairways half-nude...
...Corner. In Dallas, a burglar broke into the Third Base Café, took $40 from the cash drawer, loaded up on foodstuffs, left a note of explanation: "The cops told me to get out of town...
...cash budget will show a slight surplus in fiscal 1956; a potential 1957 surplus of $6 billion will be used for tax cuts...