Word: payments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thereby causing prices to fall and Government surplus stockpiles to bulge. To induce the farmer to grow less, the program bribed him with subsidies: for cutting his normal acreage of corn or grain sorghums by 20%, the Government paid him 50% of the value of the forgone crop. This payment was made either in cash or in the form of grain taken from the surplus stockpiles, which the farmer could then sell or feed to his stock...
According to Section 1001 (f) of the National Defense Education Act, a student is not eligible for a Title II loan--or for any other NDEA payment unless...
...Wagged His Tail (Continental). Once upon a time in Brooklyn there was a mean old slumlord (Peter Ustinov). Golly, was he mean. He raised the rent on any pretext, lowered the boom at the first late payment, embezzled the savings of his ignorant tenants, and screamed at them just to stay in abad humor. When beggars knocked at his door, he screwed up his face till he looked like a huge, ferocious dog, and snarled and barked to frighten them away...
...back in the buying mood-whether for stocks, houses or refrigerators-they will have plenty of cash to spend. Personal income in August stood at a high $419.3 billion, not too far below July's $421.2 billion-which had been inflated by a one-shot insurance payment to veterans. Without the veterans' insurance boost, the July figure would have stood at $418.6 billion...
...INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND, to which the U.S. contributes $4.1 billion of the $14 billion subscription, promotes international monetary stability by lending money to meet short-term balance-of-payment problems. With the U.S. using its considerable influence to bolster the Alliance, Latin American countries have been able to withdraw an imposing $210,200,000 since March. The heaviest borrowers so far: Brazil, $60 million; Chile, $60 million; Colombia, $65 million...