Word: payoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curbs of the new Regulation W are slightly tighter than the credit controls which expired in June 1949, they are much looser than World War II regulations. They do not apply to charge accounts, and purchases under $100 are exempted from down-payment restrictions (but subject to the payoff regulations...
...Miami Beach. A more embarrassing aspect of his relations with gamblers was brought up by two of his former deputies. One of them, Richard Howden, told the investigators that the other, one Tom ("Sailor") Burke, had been the sheriff's "bag man," had delivered $36,000 in payoff money to the sheriff's wife and had gotten signed receipts for the boodle. Burke, however, heatedly denied the charge. That sort of thing, he strongly implied, was unlawful...
...their dominating position in the New Orleans newspaper field. But Northerner Stern found that Southerner Leonard Kimball Nicholson * had rooted his two newspapers as firmly as sugar cane; Meanwhile Stern's heavy investments in a bigger staff and a new Sunday edition failed to make the expected handsome payoff: in recent weeks, Stern fired or dropped 13 staffers, was reportedly losing heavily on his Sunday paper. Last week the Item (circ. 99,658) got a helping hand against the Times-Pic (circ. 180,584) and the States (circ. 99,339) from an outside party: the U.S. Government...
...pigeon to peck 35,000 times in a five-hour period for only one-third of an ounce of food. "This," explains Professor Skinner, "is similar to offering an incentive to a wage earner. A high output can be obtained with very little pay if the schedule of payoff is right...
...company has expanded and dividends have increased, thanks partly to the employees' interest in making the company more successful, the payoffs to retiring employees have jumped sharply. Sample payoff last year: a $4,600-a-year clerk who had contributed $3,561 to the fund in 34 years got $95,626. The technical drawback to the plan is that most of the employees' pension eggs are in one basket. But under the circumstances, Sears and its employees are not worried: they do not know where they could find a more productive basket...