Word: payments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used automobiles, a minimum down payment of one-third and maximum of 21 months to pay the balance...
...Army) and Air Science 1 (Air Force) will not be restricted as to numbers. Through a screening process, final enrollment in each of these courses will be reduced to not to exceed 80. Selection will be accomplished in time to enable these rejected to drop the course without payment of the usual...
...Sloan Jr. last week: "A dividend increase at this time will help to keep [stockholders'] returns since the war more in line with the increased cost of living." G.M.'s contribution to the cause: a fat $2.50 extra dividend on top of its regular $1.50 quarterly payment. All told, G.M. stockholders will get $176 million for the quarter, of which $40 million will go to Du Pont, biggest G.M. stockholder. G.M. dividends this year already amount to $7 a share v. 1949's total payment...
Other big companies followed suit. U.S. Rubber tacked a 25? extra on its regular 75? dividend; International Paper gave its shareholders a 25% stock dividend plus 75? in cash; U.S. Gypsum doubled its $1 quarterly payment. By midweek this flood of dividends had stimulated another upsurge in the stock market. The Dow-Jones industrial average reached 216.97, highest since the Korean invasion, before traders began to cash in some of their profits...
Home to Roost. In Milwaukee, an electrician treated his son and 39 other boys to chicken dinners in a restaurant, paid the bill with $20 in cash and the worthless $120 check the restaurateur had given him in 1948 in payment for some electrical work...