Word: cash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which Miss Nichols' personal profit has been $5,000000.† And last week, after four years of bickering, a deal for the moving picture rights was completed. The terms were not made public. The Famous Players-Lasky Corp. supposedly gave Miss Nichols a huge cash payment and a percentage of receipts...
...chosen for the highest office on the News-the chairmanship. Two smart young men from Dayton, Ohio, will guide the News' finances* in 1928: one Joseph E. Lowes Jr. and Robert Patterson Jr. who is the grandson of the late John H. Patterson, founder of the National Cash Register...
...June 23, 1927, the finals of the third National Intercollegiate Oratorical Contest on the Constitution will be in Los Angeles, California, when a total of $5000 in cash prizes will be awarded to seven place-winners. The prizes ranging from $1500 for first place to $350 for seventh place...
...Each college is to select its own representative, and is to have only one. A series of semi-finals will be held before the national finals, eliminating all but seven men who take part in the finals at Los Angeles, each having the assurance of one of the seven cash prizes...
Many years ago, as one may well guess, Henry Ford had a dream with four wheels on it. In 1903 he began to manufacture it; he did not have any cash, so he cajoled some skeptical Detroiters into putting up $28,000 (the only moneys ever invested in the Ford Motor Co.). James Couzens, a Canadian by birth, who was working in a coal yard, scraped up $1,000, added his note for $1,500, bought 25 shares. Two automotive young Dodge brothers (John F. and Horace E.) invested $5,000 apiece. John Gray put up $10,000 but "didn...