Word: money
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Birnbaum's doorbell rang early one morning and an excited man broke the news. Alfred and Edna Birnbaum, lucky people, had won a $15,000 prefab house raffle ticket. But, they soon found, it takes a heap of money to make a free house a home...
...dismantle it, about $500 to cart it away from its perch on a midtown Manhattan street corner, another $4,500 to put it up somewhere else. Alfred Birnbaum, scraping along on his $105-a-month G.I. benefits while he studies optometry, just didn't have that kind of money. To make matters worse, it was costing $50 rent for every day the house remained on the parking lot, where it had been raffled away (at a loss) by the American Women's Voluntary Services...
...prisoners awaiting interrogation. One of them, a former member of the Greek seamen's union, told of his odyssey. He had been recruited by the Communists in France, then shipped on to join the rebels via Prague and Yugoslavia. "What could I do? I had no money, so I joined up," he explained. "Kaipali Grammos" (Grammos once again), said one hardbitten, stunted little Greek soldier to a U.S. correspondent. Like many of his comrades, the soldier remembered last year's unsuccessful "Operation Coronet," in which the Greek army had tried and failed to wrest Grammos from the Communists...
Soon, however, the happy converts stopped showing up. The Handas heard stories that the great Nagumo had collected large sums of money for altars from other families without delivering the sacred goods. This was too much for Mrs. Handa; her husband reluctantly agreed to drop the new religion...
...initial stock issue was underwritten by the federal government, which in turn was allowed to sell 49% of its shares to private investors; the other half was underwritten jointly by four northeastern states, municipalities, private corporations and individuals. For added capital, CHESF is counting on additional government money and is looking to Washington for a $15 million World Bank loan...