Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miami Beach, where bookmaking is an industry, Police Chief P. R. Short dutifully made token arrests of three bookies, released them on $500 bond, and explained carefully: "We don't intend to bother the bookies. They don't bother...
Mavrides was held in 360,000 double surety bond by the Middlesex County Superior Court. Trial of the case was postponed indefinitely in the hope that his alleged partners could be arrested and tried at the same time...
...newspaper ads, he invited 1,000 people to send him $100 apiece. Haynes's offer: investors would get their money back, "unconditionally," in ten years, plus a share in the profits of his importing business. For every $100 sent in, Haynes planned to send back a $100 U.S. bond maturing in ten years. As the bond would cost Haynes only $75, he would have $25 left to use as he wanted...
...letting U.S. bond prices drop, Federal Reserve raised the yield on them slightly. Since Government bonds are the biggest factor in setting interest rates on all forms of business loans, Federal Reserve's action will tend to force up all interest rates. This was a gesture to those who have complained that its failure to use all its powers to curb credit is letting the boom get out of hand. Credit would not be tightened much by the move, but it was a starter...
Although perhaps lacking the personal touch, a gift that will warm the cockles of any male heart is a product indigenous to Kentucky, particularly pleasant when wrapped in Christmas ribbon and bottled in bond. In short, whoever you may be, offer not badfnerle.Shown above is probably the most useless Christmas gift ever given to anyone: a wax dummy in a top hat. Everyone knows that wax dummies look better in fedoras...