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...looking for money to refinance his Toronto film studio; Barry gave her $60,000 in exchange for what he describes as a promise to raise $2 million for him from European banks. By the end of 1973 Barry had received neither his loan nor the return of his original deposit; he then alerted Stoessinger and went to the Canadian authorities. Later, a U.S. postal inspector showed up at Stoessinger's U.N. office to question him about the activities of his friend Anne Lamont...
Clutching suitcases and shopping bags full of cash, hundreds of Mexicans streamed across the Rio Grande last week. Their aim: to deposit in U.S. banks their threatened life savings. In Mexico City, foreign-currency trading halted as snaking lines of customers exhausted banks' supplies of dollars. Across the breadbasket of Sonora and Sinaloa states, armies of militant peasants poised to "invade" some of the country's richest farm lands. Near by, dispossessed landowners angrily draped their tractors in black crape. For a time, land war in the campo (countryside) seemed only a gunshot away...
...committees for or against referenda questions, the champion spender was the Committee to Protect Jobs and the Use of Convenience Containers, which opposed the bill to ban nonreturnable soft drink and beer containers. In campaigning against the bill, which would have mandated a deposit of at least 5 cents on each bottle or can sold in the state, the Committee to Protect Jobs spent a total of $1.21 million. Of that amount, only 23 per cent, or about $283,000, came from Massachusetts residents or locally based corporations. Seventy-seven per cent of the money pumped into the anti-bottle...
...pure chance?or, some say, typically astute Ludwig intelligence?the Jari property also turned out to contain a rich deposit of kaolin, a clay used in making coatings for high-gloss paper. Huge earth-moving machines are now gouging the white stuff out of an enormous open pit mine and feeding it into a $23 million processing plant that started up two months...
Lawton said he doesn't like the proposed deposit system because students would lose access to the money for one year and because it would cause administrative problems for his office...