Word: payments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Advance Payment. But Matusow's popularity soon began to wane. At social gatherings he was a braggart and a bore. His only talents were telling involved dirty stories and twisting pipe cleaners into animal-like figures, e.g., he made a little kangaroo and named it Billie-Bunk. When the novelty and profits of his career wore off, Matusow sulked. Moreover, anti-Communist investigators began-although not soon enough-to distrust him. The FBI now says that it dropped him in 1950-yet Matusow was permitted to testify at great length (some 700 pages in the record) in the Government...
...walking down New York's Fifth Avenue one day when he passed a synagogue and read the inscription: "Do justly, love mercy, walk humbly with thy God." This so moved him that he hastily entered into an agreement with Cameron and Kahn- not forgetting to collect an advance payment. His book's title was changed to False Witness...
...Chosen Corp., a British company which owned some Korean gold mines. It was a typically slippery operation. The company was in the midst of a management scandal (the director ultimately went off to Wormwood Scrubs prison), and the stock was momentarily cheap. Before Serge made his down payment, the stock began to rise in value, and by the time the air cleared it was apparent that Rubinstein had got in for nothing...
...full-payment health plan, underwritten by California Physicians' Service (Blue Shield), went into effect in Long Beach, Calif. Unlike most health plans, the extended coverage scheme guarantees that some 1,100 participating physicians in the Los Angeles area will accept a set C.P.S. fee as full payment. Moreover, subscribers may use any hospitals and doctors outside C.P.S. if they are willing to pay extra. Average annual cost per family...
...family's Vienna bank and Central Europe's biggest financial house, failed in 1931, Rothschild handed over $10 million of his private fortune to the Austrian government to help cover losses. Held for a year by the Gestapo after Hitler's Anschluss, he was released after payment of a $21 million "ransom...