Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tory government was in a hurry, for unless some quick solution could be found for German rearmament, its Labor opponents might be tempted to cash in on the mounting Germanophobia being whipped up in Britain (TIME, Aug. 23). Sir Winston Churchill snorted that it was time for "action, not talk"; the London Times brooded that unless "something is done," future generations might remember August 1954 "as almost as dark a date for Europe as August...
...them with a daughter of his old friend and champion, Premier Riad El Solh of Lebanon. After El Solh fell before an assassin's gun (in 1951), Ibn Saud sent his boy Prince Sultan, 29, to offer sympathy and a small token of affection ($79,000 in cash) to the Lebanese Premier's widow...
...Assassin! Thief! Piece of excrement!" they cried, as the ex-President stalked into the terminal building. There he stripped to his shorts while inspectors carefully examined his grey suit and other belongings, mindful of the fact that Arbenz and his top henchmen drew $1,000,000 in cash from the government-operated Agrarian Bank a few days before he fell.* He watched stonily while marveling examiners counted out his wife's 42 pairs of shoes. Then, with daughter Leonora, 12, and son Jacobito, 7, his wife and 16 cronies, he took off into the night sky. It was still...
...Kentucky cooperative sought him out to plead their case in the long fight. The REA had authorized $28 million in loans to build a power plant at Ford and 798 miles of transmission line. But after giving the co-ops $15 million, the Government agency had stopped handing out cash, pending the outcome of the drawn-out court fight with the private company. The co-ops wanted the rest of the money. But the private companies objected; they charged that the new lines were wasteful because they would duplicate their old ones...
Baseball teams and bowling leagues are by no means the only things that companies offer. For its 12,000 Dayton workers, National Cash Register Co. runs a 166-acre park with picnic grounds, swimming pool and two 18-hole golf courses, is now planning a field house for winter sports. International Business Machines Corp. has three country clubs for its workers, charges membership fees of $1 a year for employees, $1 for wives (or husbands), and 25-50? for each child. Detroit Edison Co. and Standard Oil Co. of California provide yacht clubs. The employee-run Convair Recreation Association owns...