Word: money
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...national committee had been spending at close to an election-year rate in an off-year: publicity men, statisticians and high-salaried executives loaded the payroll; expenses ran far ahead of contributions, at a rate of more than $70,000 a month. The big money that was so necessary was not coming...
...President Perón," said Dr. Ivanissevich, "never leaves a faucet running more than is absolutely necessary. President Perón, when he leaves a room, puts out all the lights himself. In this way he saves money which would otherwise go abroad to pay for coal and oil. General Perón is also very careful about his clothes. You will never see a spot of dirt or cigarette ash on his suit, and that is not simply because his servants remove the stain. It is because he does not soil his clothes. When a suit gets dirty...
...nightclub impresario (the Pump Room, the College Inn), reached 60, took a dim view of the bistro business: "Nightclubs are like gold mines. For every ten bucks you put in, one buck is extracted . . . Old nightclubs and old streetwalkers are the same. The older they get, the less money they take...
Balding Sam Snead, 37, barely missed winning golf's biggest prize, the U.S. Open. But he won enough assorted other tournaments this year to be far & away the game's leading money winner, with $30,893. Last week, with the poise of a magician about to perform his tricks, Sam stepped to the first tee of the Pinehurst (N.C.) Country Club for one of the last big tournaments of golf's fiscal year: the North and South Open...
Evangelist Graham pays little attention to the revival's finances ("The committee handles all that"), but the amount of money collected has astonished seasoned hands. Though only one collection is taken each session, contributions average 25? a head instead of the usual 7? for revivalgoers...