Word: money
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Specialists Tournament, then a 70, and then a brilliant 65. His one bad round cost him first place by one stroke, but the $900 he picked up boosted his earnings for the year to $9,384 and moved him ahead of Sam Snead in 1949's money race. Says Middlecoff, who admits along with other pros that big-time golf is a tough way to make a living: "I wouldn't do it if I didn't like it. You know, I don't have...
...Will Shakespeare's home town flocked the first arrivals of the 150,000 money-bearing pilgrims from some 75 countries who are expected to come, gawk, worship and spend before the first leaves fall. The hardier Bardolators (as one London critic calls them) will swarm for "Bed, Bard and Breakfast" to Stratford's 45 hotels and 47 guest houses. They will also get their fill of the master's works- eight plays a week in the $1,000,000 riverside Shakespeare Memorial Theater...
Other canny Stratfordians will also cash in. Just inside the Merry Wives Gift Shoppe is inscribed: "Make Bold With Your Money-Merry Wives of Windsor" This blunt advice* from the best source prompts thousands of tourists to buy knickknacks ranging from ashtrays to souvenir pillows stamped "Stratford," "Avon" or "Shakespeare." All Stratford merchants are aware of what's in a name. Samples: the Hathaway Tea Rooms, the Shakespeare Garage, Shakespeare's Doorstep Woolens Shop, Shakespeare Pearce's Restaurant ("Hot Joints Daily...
...Johnston, who was elected a director, knew but was telling no one. However, the United Mine Workers had been talking for some time about buying a bank-and it made good financial sense. The welfare fund was likely to soar to $100 million and the union could make more money by putting it out in bank loans than by drawing interest on it as a deposit. But when newsmen asked Lewis if he was now a banker, all they got was a faraway look and a curt: "No comment...
Last week ICC Examiner J.A. Prichard tartly recommended that the application be turned down. He said the road should be a profitable operation, but was actually trying to lose money. At Morenci, it had allowed its tracks to be torn up and given its right of way to the New York Central. (The owner, a Columbus scrap-metal firm, said it had been ordered out for want of a franchise.) The owners' real object, said the examiner, was to go out of business so that its trackage, bought for only $33,-450 in 1933, could be sold as scrap...