Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a deal was made whereby the Government gave the striking unions substantially everything they were demanding from their employers-control of hiring halls, higher pay, cash for overtime. Suggesting that this be made precedent for settling the whole strike, International Longshoremen's Association crowed in San Francisco: "It is interesting to note that the U. S. Government recognizes the demands of the strikers as just and reasonble...
...strict cash-politics basis Mr. Davies was not entitled to the job. He gave only $17,500 to the Democratic campaign chest this year, whereas his rival for the job, Curtis Bok, esthetic son of the late great editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, gave $30,000. Moreover, Curtis Bok once worked in a Soviet candy factory and now is judge of an orphans court in Philadelphia. After election, however, Mr. Bok was let know that Franklin Roosevelt did not want any amateur diplomats in big jobs during present international complications. Young Mrs. Bok was given...
...Talcott, Inc. will make market studies, find selling agents, provide storage and showroom facilities, handle the clerical detail of foreign or domestic shipments. It does not, as the commission merchant used to do, actually sell the manufacturer's goods. Like all factors, James Talcott is primarily concerned with cash and credit...
...manufacturer who needs working capital to build up an inventory of seasonal goods, Talcott will advance the money. Biggest item is the purchase of accounts receivable, providing a manufacturer with immediate cash for goods he sold on credit. Talcott has a tremendous credit department, so that a client, if he wants, may dispense with his own credit department entirely. Sometimes Talcott will merely assume the credit risk without advancing cash, receiving a fee for this service. The firm factors about 400 concerns, makes a point of assigning two officers with the authority to make decisions to each account, insisting that...
...still trickier game. Inspecting a claim near Porcupine, Canada, Joslin reported that it was salted, took no samples of the rock into which the gold had obviously been pounded. Another company took such tests despite the clumsy attempt at fraud, discovered the samples averaged $25 a ton, paid cash for the claim, thinking the would-be crook had pounded gold into a gold mine unwittingly. But it developed that the crook had foreseen that line of reasoning, done a crude job of salting as bait, then an expert job of salting the samples, escaped in the double double-crossing that...