Word: payments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...change was made in order to facilitate the payment of bills. "We think it will be a good deal easier to have the bills all equal," Edward Reynolds, Administrative vice-President, said yesterday...
...Easter Tuesday. (But in Durham, England, the men used to take off the women's shoes on Easter Monday and the women took off the men's shoes on Easter Tuesday.) In Bohemia, the women pay the men for the Easter Monday beating they get. The payment: dyed eggs. The beatings and egg-giving occur in the morning. In the afternoon everybody-tired, bruised and happy-goes egg rolling. In Scotland, bannocks (wheel-shaped oatmeal cakes) were rolled down the hillsides, later gave way to hard-boiled eggs. Across the Irish Sea the custom was known as "trundling...
...current heartbeat . . . The part I liked about this business was that there were no collection problems. If I couldn't get the price I wanted from one side, I could always sell out to the other side. In fact, just the threat of doing so usually secured immediate payment." After such free-lance blackmail, he was spotted as a comer by big crime's talent scouts. Behind a steel-plated door in the rear of his toney haberdashery, Racketeer Mickey Cohen began to peel off $100 bills and to the bemused gaze of Wiretapper Vaus, the long green...
Honored in the Breach. In Pineville, La., after listening to Mrs. Nona Vance's charge that Handyman Elmer A. Gallipau had failed to paint her house and Gallipau's countercharge that the hair-restorer treatments she gave him in payment had failed to grow hair. Judge Jack Holt called it a draw, assessed both equal shares of the court costs...
...without naming Alma as corespondent, then sued her for alienation of affections* and last year won a $25,000 judgment. "We haven't got $25,000," said Fergerson, a trucking supervisor, who had married Alma by then. But the first Mrs. Fergerson had other means open to exact payment for her lost love...