Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trade with the West took on the appearance of a major offensive. To a 33-man delegation of blue-chip British businessmen, the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Trade made an offer that resounded round the world: $1.1 billion worth of orders for British manufactures to be paid for in cash and delivered within three years...
Last week Account No. 30824 held only enough cash to last until mid-April, but Fazlollah Zahedi seemed to be winning the race. At home, the job of choosing the new Majlis was going well-for the Premier. Seventy-seven deputies have been elected so far, every one of them pro-Zahedi...
...Latest idea to make child psychologists turn grey: a nation-wide newspaper contest inspired by the cartoon strip Dennis the Menace. Mothers were asked to send in (for cash prizes of $25-$75) the very worst pranks their youngsters have pulled. An early winner: a 2½-year-old who pried open the automatic washer (flooding the house), stuffed dry spaghetti into the electric mixer (burning it out), cut a shirt to shreds with scissors, painted the neighbor's garage a bright rainbow of colors...
...dance," it said, "and it is not indecorous for you to become the emperor of instruction." It ended with an invitation to head a dance academy at Paris' famed Salle Pleyel. Escudero accepted, but Old Dancer Escudero, a man who never bothered to count his money, had no cash to make the trip...
Many stockholders also opposed the plan. How did the company expect to modernize its plants and equipment, they asked, if virtually all the cash was to be used to retire preferred stock? They charged that the company was1) shutting down some of its more efficient mills and keeping the less efficient and 2) keeping six mills that averaged about 60 looms apiece, necessitating six resident managers, six maintenance crews, six tax bills, etc., to turn out as much as one of the mills to be closed. Stockholders' committees sprang up, and at least one aimed to take over...