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...Summerfield stood fast. Sniffed Clarence Cannon: "He's been breaking the law all along.* I don't see why he suddenly has become so pious that he can't keep essential service going.'' Mailman Summerfield refused to budge until he got cash on the barrelhead. And he took the opportunity to remind the U.S. of one of the freaks of Government accounting: no matter how much money the Post Office takes in by selling stamps and money orders, the Post Office cannot use a cent of it. Reason: the receipts go into the general fund...
...time he progresses in the field of livestock, he is tethered to that stock character of all cowtowns, a prostitute with a heart of gold. Gallic is slim and blonde and high-breasted, and it was love for both from the first time he paid cash on the barrelhead. When Lat becomes a big man, it is plain that Gallic will not do. But the educated niece of a prosperous storekeeper will and does, at the cost of Callie's broken heart...
Cash on the Barrelhead. That Benedict Arnold, apothecary, merchant, and self-made soldier was a hero on the battlefield has never been made more clear. In Connecticut, in Canada, on Lake Champlain and at Saratoga, he fought with the kind of superb gallantry that lesser men might call foolhardy. But Arnold off the field was a different man. Vain, querulous and greedy, he loved rank at least as much as he loved his country, and was not above using his position to line his pocket through fishy and degrading commercial deals. That he betrayed his country for reasons of political...
...delay. Soon Ratliff went back to the court with an agreement from Halsey, Stuart & Co., investment bankers, to issue $6,000,000 in bonds to help buy the paper. A Cincinnati brokerage house also offered to underwrite a $1.5 million stock issue. The money would be cash on the barrelhead, said Ratliff, where the Times-Star offered only $1,250,000 down. The Times-Star countered that its offer was solidly backed by Times-Star bonds; the offer of Ratliff's group was based on promises...
When J. C. (for James Cash) Penney started out in 1902 in the small mining town of Kemmerer, Wyo., he had one store, a $2,000 stake in it (most of it borrowed), and high hopes for his new, cash-on-the-barrelhead business. Last week 75-year-old Jim Penney, founder of the 1,612-store J. C. Penney Co. chain (TIME, June 20, 1949), third largest general merchandise retail business in the U.S., made a sentimental journey back to Wyoming for his first store's 49th anniversary...