Word: payments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year "perhaps," answered Derick Heathcoat-Amory, Minister of State in the Board of Trade last week. Along with convertibility, said Tory Heathcoat-Amory, should come "the total abolition of import restrictions." Just how soon this happy day arrives, he added, depends on 1) Britain's own balance-of-payment situation; 2) whether the U.S. helps by liberalizing its own international trade policy...
FOREIGN-AID PLANNERS under FOA Director Harold Stassen are working overtime on three economic ideas for Southeast Asia. FOA wants to set up 1) a currency-clearing union backed by $1 billion in U.S. funds, to help settle payment accounts between Asiatic nations; 2) a U.S.-financed rice bank to store surplus rice against famine years; and 3) a series of U.S.-sponsored barter deals by which Asiatic countries can trade more of their raw materials for manufactured goods...
Reserved Seat. In Los Angeles, Salesman J. N. Gilckin was charged with forgery after he gave Policeman Eugene Markham a bogus $5 check in payment for two tickets to the Los Angeles police show...
...National Cash Register Co. After computing a regular total, the salesclerk rings up the amount paid by a customer, punches a "change" key, and numerals flash up to show how much is due. The new register also issues a receipt listing each item, the total, the amount given in payment and the correct change. Price: as much as $350 above conventional registers...
...sets with each new sale. In other cities, dealers promise trade-ins of $500 or more for anything customers can drive, push or shovel onto their lots, flood newspapers with ads offering wonderful-sounding deals that often turn out to be phony. Sample: $195 down for a 1954 Plymouth, payments of only $44 per month for 24 months. What the ads do not say is that the 24th payment is a whopping...