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...Payoff: Twelve Cigars. Times changed. Prohibition put Hinky Dink out of his saloon; Al Capone stole much of his power. Bathhouse John died in 1938, old and broke. But Hinky Dink stayed on at his old stand in the First Ward. Then, in 1943, diabetes and old age beat him down. He retired to a hotel room. His fortune (estimated at $2,000,000) afforded him but little comfort beyond the dozen $1 cigars he smoked every day. He died attended only by a male nurse...
Movie attendance was indeed up to an all-time high (95,000,000 a week) and the excess profits tax was gone. But the payoff fact was that Hollywood was selling products made a few years ago at comparatively lower costs, at record-high box-office prices (some 37% higher than...
...Payoff in Gold. Since old John B.'s death the company has been run by conservative hands who rose through the ranks. For years they paid off their employes in gold, as old John B. had, until it became illegal. For a while they also paid off in silver...
...Harry Truman had cried to Kansas City's Boss Jim Pendergast for help. Boss Jim, nephew of the late, unsavory Tom, replied in the way a boss knows best. He sent out the steamroller (and thus, in one day, brought about the rebirth of a Pendergast juggernaut). The payoff from Washington would, presumably come later...
...could conceivably cancel each other out. If Argentina would not turn the $750 million into an interest-free loan, the British might let them use it to buy back the great, unprofitable network of British-owned railways which fan out across the pampas. Argentina would prefer the $750 million payoff in capital goods. One obvious British fear: that an industrialized Argentina would no longer complement Britain's economy...