Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five days prior, William Moyers went to the office of his old friend Ernest Woodruff, director of Coca-Cola Corp., held a revolver on him, forced him to call their mutual friend Thomas K. Glenn, president of Georgia Trust Co., and order him to bring $30,000 in cash to the office immediately. While he waited for the money, Moyers held Woodruff, his secretary and an office visitor at bay. When Banker Glenn arrived, Moyers pocketed the money. Banker Glenn was then forced to accompany Moyers to the street where he disappeared into a crowd of some 20,000 that...
Ward's is capitalized at $115,000, has a current inventory close to $300,000. Gross business for 1936 up to last week was about $200,000. Until this year no profit ever showed on the books because surplus cash was promptly plowed back into stock, frequently for rare items which might be called for only once in a decade. Turnover in some lines is extremely slow. Not long ago the company sold a crane skeleton which it had had for 50 years and which still bore a label written by William Hornaday. A skeleton of the extinct passenger...
...officials seized it on the grounds that she had obtained no export permit. In near-hysteria Mrs. Harkness spent the night in the Shanghai customs house, nursing her precious cub from a bottle while the Empress of Russia sailed without her. After friends had helped her post a large cash bond, customs officials permitted Mrs. Harkness to take the baby giant to her hotel, suggested payment of an export tax of $150 Mexican ($45 U. S.). Then, just as she had given up hope, the huffy officials consented to let her take her rare prize home on the President McKinley...
Chapter 2, Under this arrangement RKO made $1,669,000 in 1929, $3,385,000 in 1930, although nothing was paid on RKO's stock. For $4,700,000 in cash and notes, RKO early in 1931 bought the production and distribution facilities of Pathe Exchange, Inc., whose head had been Joseph Patrick Kennedy, later Securities & Exchange Commission chairman. The deal gave RKO a newsreel, enabled it to plunge further into a cinemaking program which proved costly as the depression deepened...
...long view. Our athletic endowment is far in the future, when we shall meet only Yale. But until then, there seems small need to apply additional pressure to our poor gladiators--they play a hard enough schedule as it is. Even the cash interest hadn't ought to force them to work harder. It should be remembered that it is not the "Princetonian" editors who play a big game every Saturday...