Word: cash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Three cash prizes have been offered by Harper's Magazine to the undergraduate college students who during the college year from November 1 onward produce the best pieces of English prose. The prizes will be one of $500, another of $300 and a third...
...sell electrical equipment. Western Electric specializes in the telephonic field. General Electric covers practically all the others. Last week the 1925 profits of both these companies were reported. General Electric profits available for dividends, after interest and all charges, amounted to $38,641,217, equivalent after 6% cash dividend on special stock, to $20.47 a share on the $180,287,046 of $100 par common stock outstanding. The company is in excellent financial condition-liabilities $39,829,694, assets $270,271,884. Its principal financial activity during the year was the distribution to shareholders of its holdings in Electric Bond...
...interesting article on cash registers which appears in TIME, March 8, page 29, we notice in the footnote the statement that...
...cold dawn of March 4, 1897, a freight train drew into the city of Washington. Two dirty, shivering, hungry young hoboes hopped off the bumpers and began to wear out the pavements of the Capital. One of them tried to cash a check for $15. He was indignantly refused, although he explained that his father was a judge in Pittsburgh and he was a freshman at Princeton. The two hungry boys walked up to a well-dressed man in the street. He smiled when he saw them and grinned when they told their story. "Here's $20," he said...
...many states lack James Cash Penney stores...