Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come to Brussels to accept a $2,000 award for his good works in Africa. In recent years it has become a pyramiding proposition: the more good works Medical Missionary Albert Schweitzer performs, the more money he gets to carry them forward faster. When he was greeted by an official party at the Prevoyance Sociale Building, Dr. Schweitzer exchanged pleasantries, then made his choice between an escalator and a flight of stairs to the fourth-floor scene of his new honor. Bemusing most of his greeters, Nobelman Schweitzer flew up the stairs, left those who had deferred...
...launched, will not have any trouble keeping up the payments. Ben-Hur has run up the biggest advance sale ($500,000) in film history, and the studio expects it to run at least two years at high-priced, ten-a-week showings in selected theaters, and to make more money than The Ten Commandments, which has already grossed more than $50 million...
...studio to skindive for gold, is ready to take another. Wayde Preston ($500 a week) walked off the set of Colt .45, signed up as a partner in an airplane charter service. "Worst of all," he grumbled, "is the weekly insult-the paycheck. Heck, I can make more money laying bricks than acting...
...next-to-last engagement ring (Mike Todd, 29.5 carats), finally persuaded the party to move by offering to pay their check (circa $500). "Listen, lady," the squatters told her (or so she reported later), "we knew Eddie when he was a waiter at Grossinger's, and our money is as good as yours...
...loan program, one of the glories of last year's National Defense Education Act, encourages needy potential schoolteachers and superior students of science and language. This year the Government is lending $30 million to 1,365 schools (which add $1 for every $9 of U.S. money) to aid about 120,000 students. The trouble is one small clause: every borrower must not only 1) swear allegiance to the U.S., but 2) file an affidavit that he "does not believe in, and is not a member of and does not support any organization that believes in or teaches, the overthrow...