Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Government, said Jimmy Carter, would "come to a screeching halt, and all [federal] salaries stop." Welfare payments would end, and public works projects would be suspended. Some 37.65 million Social Security checks were in the mail, but federal officials suggested that banks might not cash them...
DIED. Thomas F. ("Sandy") Richardson, 73, a member of the famed Brink's gang that made off with $2.8 million in Boston 30 years ago, including enough in currency ($1.2 million) to make it the largest cash holdup in U.S. history at the time; of cancer; in South Weymouth, Mass. Richardson, a sometime longshoreman, was one of eleven men charged with the crime in 1956, only five days before the state statute of limitations would have...
...their entry-level jobs barely cover fast food and shabby shelter. Living at home can save years of scrimping. In the three years since he moved into his parents' Miami house, one 24-year-old rock-music reporter has stashed away $6,000, bought a used car with cash and traveled to England on his $12,800 salary. His room and board: $15 per week. Winston Whitlock, 23, returned to his parents' Atlanta home-and his father's restaurant-supply business-after leaving the Air Force. He earns his keep through household chores...
...uncle for about eight months, has been held up once in his three years of full-time night driving. Last spring, he stopped at Fresh Pond to make a phone call. He was standing beside his cab when three men pulled knives on him and took all his cash...
...Nationale des Usines Renault, Europe's fourth largest car company, unveiled a labyrinthine financial deal that amounts to a Big Money bailout of the weakest and smallest of the major U.S. automakers. The survival scheme, which the firms have been negotiating since July, would inject $500 million in cash into AMC. Also, the deal could wind up providing Renault, which already holds 5% of AMC's stock as a result of a 1979 financing plan, with 55% of the company's shares. Said AMC President W. Paul Tippett Jr.: "Renault would not have made this commitment unless...