Word: payments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Present Government subsidies, said Murray, make up the "construction differential," i.e., the difference between the cost of shipbuilding at home and abroad. But even with this aid, few shippers can afford the required down payment of 25% on new vessels. Foreign competition has grown so large that the U.S. fleet in operation represents only 10% of the world's merchant ships. Operating costs are also high. An American freighter with a 51-man crew has a monthly payroll of $20,800 v. $4,700 for a British crew...
...Communists and agrarian reformers who run Guatemala's government grabbed 233,973 acres of the United Fruit Co.'s best banana reserve lands at Tiquisate last year, and blandly offered the company $594,572 in 25-year government bonds as payment. The company, which values the land at $15,854,849, cried "confiscation," and asked the U.S. Government for help...
...Greenspun is a man who knows his way around a courtroom. A New York lawyer, Greenspun moved to Nevada in 1946, later became a pressagent for a Las Vegas gambling house. In 1950 he bought the Sun property, including $2,500 in cash assets, with a $1,000 down payment, then took off after Democratic Senator Pat McCarran. Last year Greenspun won an $80,000 out-of-court settlement from some local gambling houses when he sued on charges that McCarran had conspired with them to take their advertising out of the Sun (TIME...
Nasser had to bow for a time to the Moheddine group. But by last week Mo hammed Naguib lay abed with a nervous breakdown, and Nasser was strong enough once more to exact payment for the broken pledge of ex-friend Moheddine. After a meeting of the R.C.C., it was revealed that Khaled Moheddine had resigned and would leave soon for Italy on a government mission, would thereafter take an extended European vacation. It was another measure of the gentleness which has so far marked Egypt's 21-month-old revolution. Had Major Moheddine and his Communist friends come...
...down payment of $1,500,000 and the balance by the end of the year. The Post gets the entire physical property of the Times-Herald, will sell its presses to the Chicago Tribune for about $1,500,000. It also gets possession of Colonel McCormick's $130,000 Washington home and takes on the responsibility of paying close to $750,000 in severance pay to the Times-Herald employees who do not get jobs working on the Post...