Word: till
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bosch tidied up corruption in the customs service. Finding hundreds of businesses operating without licenses, he made them pay the official fees. Throwing out a racket whereby contractors were never paid till they had kicked back 30%, he squared accounts, began paying...
...Minister was poison to politicos. Bosch all but stopped the gravy train that had shuttled in & out of the Treasury since the republic's birth.*Outraged Congressmen got up all kinds of investigating committees to harry him. They quizzed him in practically every field of government finance, sometimes till 3 in the morning. A fortnight ago they summoned him for more heckling on his plan for reorganizing a rundown government workers' retirement fund. Bosch testily told them he had a previous engagement, went off to a Bacardi board meeting at which he was elected company president...
...assistant cashier in a New Jersey bank, arrested last January for embezzling $9,000 from his till, had a shocking story to tell. He was a sober, hard-working family man, a devoted husband, father of six children. He told authorities he had taken the money to buy cortisone for his wife, who had suffered for years from crippling arthritis. The drug had made a new woman of her. While the dosage continued, she was free of pain, able to leave her bed and care for her children. But the cost was great-close...
...then 26, and his brother Charles. Fresh out of Stanford University's engineering school, and with $10,000 in capital borrowed from their father, the brothers designed an industrial fuel control unit, did badly. They did better with a thermostat control for home furnaces, but not till they invented a simplified home-heater control did sales start soaring. By 1940, sales were up to $612,848. Since then more than $2,000,000 in stock has been, issued, to finance expansion of their plant in Glendale, and three younger brothers (General Manager Al, Sales Boss Jack, Plant Superintendent Richard...
...came prepared to envy our husband. We have learned to do that well. But we should have come prepared to wait. That is what we do most. Tuesdays we wait dinner till he comes home from a seminar overly full of beer and cheese. Fridays we wait past midnight for the Nieman dinner and the Hour-At-Cronin's to end. That is when we realize for certain we have lost our husband. He is no longer the uncomplicated newsman we married. He has become Lost In Thought...