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...soon as the Red nations had signed their wheat purchase contracts in the U.S., they would be back bidding on oils and other U.S. produce. DeAngelis bought $150 million worth of vegetable-oil futures on Allied's credit with just a small down payment and waited for the payoff...
...wall crush, has recalled wistfully how Andrew Jackson climbed out of a White House window during his own Inaugural reception in 1829 and hot footed it across the Potomac to Gadsby's Tavern "But sometimes," says U.S. Ambassador to Poland John Moors Cabot, "there is a direct payoff, with an immediate discussion behind the potted palms." Some recent payoffs along Washington's champagne circuit...
...dating Lucy Baines Johnson, L.B.J.'s 15-year-old daughter. So one evening when he came to call for Lucy, Richie confronted the Vice President in his den and told him what was going on. Next day Lyndon informed the boy that he need not continue the payoff and would be permitted to live rent-free for three months at Stewart's place to make up for his losses. Baker himself admitted that "some of Boyd Richie's money had been deferred. After all, he was just a teen-ager and making a good salary...
...quarters. This is a remarkable performance because, in previous cycles of recession and recovery since World War II, profits fell off after an average five quarters of expansion. What is different this time? Strong sales, steady production costs, a general sharpening of management techniques and a payoff from automation...
...competitors for long. Already the rival Red Owl chain has started a TV bingo contest with prizes of trading stamps held out to thousands at home with Red Owl cards. In cities all over, stores are staging such games as "Hidden Treasure," "Split the Dollar," "Hit 100," with a payoff in money, appliances and stamps for those who eagerly collect them...