Word: money
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Injunction. In Sydney, Australia, a gunman holding up a branch of the National Bank of Australia fled without taking any money when the cashier told him, "Don't be silly...
Spot Cash. In Duncan, Okla., when she developed a rash on her left hand, Bank Teller Laverne Parks learned from her doctor that she is allergic to money...
...Association, H. E. Gilbert, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, indicated just how far the New Haven has come under Alpert's presidency. Charging railroad lines in the New York area with deliberately providing bad service to drive commuters away and thereby end a money-losing operation, Gilbert delivered a devastating bill of particulars. Notably excepted was the Long Island Railroad, which has come from a commuter's nightmare to something close to a commuter's dream (TIME...
Dominique was given to making salades (trouble), to pouring into slot machines money that should have gone to Bill, even to talking of giving up her trade altogether. Among the more code-conscious of Paris' 9,000 prostitutes, the penalty for deserting a protector is severe: it can mean a 500,000-franc fine, underworld-enforced, or even the lifelong scar of the dreaded croix des vaches, a deep cross carved into the doxy's forehead. Bill had even more grandiose ideas of the code of the caïd. When Dominique told him that she could...
Going Through Money. But as the royal fortunes began to mend, King Saud, 57, began to go back to his spending ways and his authoritarian habits. The palace noted that Feisal's new budget made inadequate provision for paying off retainers (and creditors), began denouncing Feisal as a penny pincher. King Saud himself took off on a tour among the desert sheiks, paying out blood money (sums Arabs owe for hurting, killing or maiming one another), passing out bank notes in the grand manner. This brought him squarely into conflict with Crown Prince Feisal, who is trying to substitute...