Word: payments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soviet willingness to buy Egypt's cotton at uneconomic prices gives its salesmen a vital edge. Thus a French firm that was a low bidder on a contract for diesel engines lost out when Hungary promised to accept payment for the job in cotton. All told, cotton shipments account for 90% of Egypt's total exports. This year the Soviet bloc will take well over half of them...
...best days never shot better than 94, began to wonder about such uncommonly fine scores handed in by such high-handicap players. He checked the entry list and discovered that Winner Vitali belonged to no recognized club where his handicap could be checked. He tried to hold up payment of the winners' prize money, but was overruled by his tournament committee. No golfing gentlemen, they argued,t would participate in a fraud...
...industrial employment like any other, they had formed themselves into the Ahmedabad Jain Temple Priests Trade Union. From temple committees they demanded: an $8 minimum monthly wage, one day off a week, seven days' paid sick leave a year, three weeks' paid vacation annually, and the payment of a lump sum to a priest when he retires, or to his family if he dies in harness...
Socony Mobil paid an extra 50? a share; Texaco gave stockholders an unexpected $1.10 a share, in addition upped the usual quarterly dividend from 75? to 90? ; U.S. Steel tacked an additional 15? onto its regular quarterly payment of 50?; I.B.M. declared a 2.5% stock dividend; Deere & Co. upped its dividend...
Richard S. Robie, President of the firm, maintained however, that his organization had in the past collected on students' bills from Lehman Hall. He thus contradicted Roy V. Perry, University Bursar, who said Tuesday that "no one outside the University can receive payment from the $500 security posted for a bursar's card...