Word: refunds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...original $650,000 was down to $450,000, which had been given to a second Zurich bank to invest in stocks. It is said that Irving is now frantically trying to raise $200,000 in order to replace the money that has been spent, should he be required to refund it to McGraw-Hill. The fact that the money remains in the Irvings' accounts is one of the best arguments against the theory that an impostor posing as Hughes duped Irving; presumably such an impostor would long since have absconded with the money...
...started out with little new except strengthened bumpers. What brought most of the spurt was the freeze-produced sales of 1972-model cars at early-1971 prices, as well as the $200 excise tax cut that President Nixon has proposed. If, as expected, Congress approves the cut, dealers will refund the tax to customers. American Motors has in fact been making excise-tax refunds even before Congress acts; the company's sales jumped 50% in September, compared with the same month in 1970. Whether or not the sales surge will continue into 1972 will depend on what happens...
...prices. > In Hopkinton, N.H., some 30,000 New Englanders flocked to a county fair over the Labor Day weekend. After visitors complained that this year's $2 admission charge, 50¢ more than last year's, was an unfair fair fare, the event's organizers offered a refund last week to anyone who could present a ticket stub. Since few people had retained their stubs, fair officials were still trying to figure out what to do with $10,000 of unclaimed but illegally collected cash...
...test scores showed that nearly 73% of the children had reached or exceeded national levels in reading or math. But the gains were spotty. Among sixth-graders, 69% reached the average level in math but only 40% got there in reading. As a result, the firm had to refund $75,000 to the school system. Still, Gary Superintendent Gordon L. McAndrew pronounced the overall results "encouraging...
...afford the price of bread in the markets, King Richard responds with his anti-inflationary proposal, which says in effect: "Let them eat cars!" The only way a homeowner can now get any money back is not through lowered prices or raised salaries but by a refund for every new car he buys...