Word: payments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barnum was tone deaf, but he had brought Jenny Lind to America because he absurdly hoped to change his image. When people thought of Barnum, they thought of sheer bazazz, and he wanted them to think of fine arts and culture. This cost him a down payment of $187,500 before the singer would set foot on board ship. But his investment paid off in cash if not in permanent dignity, as Jenny Lind made a 12,000-mile, 165-concert sellout tour during which a single seat went for $653; another time, 1,000 standing-room tickets were sold...
...claim that the wife of a student living in university-owned housing often works and that one or more children attend city schools. The conflict has been resolved at other colleges by such measures as a college-paid tuition for students' children at city schools or by a regular payment for police and fire protection...
Audiberti recently became a contributor to the Comédie Française, thus assuring himself of a sort of down payment on immortality. Used to stumer fare, the mink-and-diamond Comédie audience could hardly believe what they heard in Audiberti's play, The Ant in the Body...
...economy because, unlike the administrative budget, it includes the collections and disbursals of such federal trusts as the social security fund and the unemployment insurance program. More important, the national income method follows standard business accounting practice by listing expenditures at the time bills are incurred rather than when payment is made-and similarly counts taxes as current income at the time when corporations set aside in their own accounts the money to pay their tax bills. By contrast, the administrative budget counts tax money only as it is actually collected every six months, which makes it at best only...
...Tall Crop. Even the gloomiest builders concede some hopeful signs. Contract awards for private housing were 29% above 1961 levels in January and February. The FHA recently reduced its down-payment minimums to a rock-bottom 3%, which helped send FHA insurance applications 10% above the early 1961 rate. The Government is also getting off the ground with its direct loan program for housing for older people, now has 20,000 applications. And Washington intends to increase its public housing starts from last year's 40,000 to 50,000 this year...