Word: payments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...staff members of the House Public Works Committee stayed at a Manhattan hotel on a summer weekend to check up on "Long Island beach erosion." Several congressional wives accompanied them. A neat square of ink blotted out the "Mrs." on the hotel bills that were submitted for payment. Members of the same committee, accompanied by a few wives, appeared in Manhattan again to stay at the fashionable Plaza to "study" New York's harbor and thruway...
...their fingers in almost every facet of the government from the physical education program to economic planning. Under their guidance, Guinea has replaced the French franc with a currency of its own printed in Czechoslovakia. Western goods have vanished from shop shelves, and Communist cement clogs the wharves in payment for Guinea's bananas...
...contests and convention speakers plus space in U.S. publications bought mostly by Negroes. "We have nothing to do with Castro or politics; it's just another publicity account," said Joe, who had to register with the Justice Department as a foreign agent. Worriedly, he added that payment on the new account is already "two months behind...
...card party. Her hero, John Jackson Cozad. was indeed a wily gentleman jackleg, but a green baize tabletop never confined his instinct for conquest. In 1872, when every faro den east of the Mississippi had barred its doors to his talent for bank breaking, Cozad made a down payment on 40,000 acres of Union Pacific land in Nebraska near the Platte River. A community there, he dreamed, would be his monument, and good farming families, lured from depression-strangled Ohio, would build...
...them, provide maid service and other amenities to the owners of individual apartments, who are then free either to live in them or to rent them to tourists. A typical two-room Aluli co-op hotel apartment costs $15,100, with $4,500 down and a $75 monthly mortgage payment for 25 years at 7% interest. An investor can earn 10% on his initial investment if his apartment is rented only 15 days a month...