Word: payments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...means easy installments. Vedad Baykurt, a young businessman, says that when the peasant comes into a farm equipment store these days, his first question is, "Bu Marshall mi? [Is this Marshall?]," meaning, can I buy this on 20% down and 20% each year for five years, borrowing the down payment from the Agricultural Bank...
...work was rough. He had only a big broadax to work with, and often, when his clients lacked the grace to hold still, his mighty swings resulted in bloody mutilation only. Charles would seize his sword then, and stab with a will until the job was done. In payment he got a fixed fee for each execution and the right to draw on the public markets at will for food for himself, his family and two horses...
...Thank you for the many compliments in your write-up of me and my lucky week at Forest Hills [TIME, Sept. 17] . . . However, the impression that I received lessons from Tennis Pro Wilbur Folsom in exchange for retrieving tennis balls is incorrect. He received payment from my family for my instruction from the beginning...
...also the result of Israeli and allied pressure. Last spring the Israeli government (which refuses to speak directly to Germany) demanded, in notes to the Big Four powers, $1.5 billion in reparations from West Germany to help pay the cost of resettling Jews in Israel. Most likely form of payment, if & when a German-Israeli deal is negotiated: manufactured goods...
...Yanqui inventor claimed credit for having 1) encouraged a 1950 petroleum law allowing foreign oil companies to resume prospecting in Bolivia, 2) arranged for the U.S. to buy Bolivia's strategic tungsten, 3) promoted resumption of payment on $145 million worth of defaulted Bolivian bonds. However others felt, Bolivians thought kindly of the ambassador. Before Florman left last week, they gave him the Order of the Andean Condor, their highest decoration...