Word: payments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kickback on public-works contracts. Potbellied Chief of Staff Francisco Tabernilla and his family made off with the entire army retirement fund of $40 million. Havana storekeepers who wanted to attract crowds by having a bus-stop sign out front could get one any time-for a flat payment of $4,000 to traffic officials...
...goal of its Program for Harvard College (TIME, Nov. 26, 1956), came the largest gift so far from an individual donor: $2,000,000 for scholarships. The anonymous giver, who went through Harvard on a scholarship, regards the huge sum, said President Nathan M. Pusey, as "only partial payment" for his education. To other men of parts who once had scholarships, Pusey observed that the college needs more such partial payments...
...example, would continue public housing, boost federal subsidies in slum clearance from the Administration's proposed $250 million to $500 million, throw another $500 million into the Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannie Mae") for mortgage purchasing, and make it easier to buy houses by slashing mortgage down-payment requirements while stretching out mortgage repayments to 35 years...
Approximately two-thirds of the rooms would have two bedrooms, the rest one, according to preliminary plans. A down payment of $3000 would purchase tenancy in the larger apartments, and rights for the one-bedroom suites would cost...
...high, really, penurious Bachelor Harry Schweitzer, 75, could have built the pile if the City of New York had not arrested him last week. Charges: grand and petty larceny, violation of social welfare laws for playing the market over the past seven years out of his $71.10 monthly welfare payment...