Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...journey of husbandry. . . . I saw drought devastation in nine states. I talked with families who had lost their wheat crop, lost their corn crop, lost their livestock, lost the water in their well, lost their garden and come through to the end of the summer without one dollar of cash resources, facing the winter without feed or food-facing a planting season without seed to put in the ground...
...fastest liner, R. M. S. Queen Mary, came the world's fastest blackamoor, Jesse Owens, with four Olympic crowns in his valise. With very little money in his pocket, Sprinter Owens made no secret of the fact that he was returning to the U. S. to cash in on his athletic reputation for all it was worth. Bug-eyed Radioclown Eddie Cantor, whose recent offer of a college scholarship ended in an unfortunate cribbing fiasco (TIME, April 20), was said to be offering Owens $4,000 a week just to take him on a personal tour. A Manhattan theatre...
Trouble Chest. Of the $750,000,000 of new financing which the President mentioned, Secretary Morgenthau last week announced that the Treasury would borrow $400,000,000 on Sept. 15. It was seeking that much right away, he explained, chiefly because the Administration had decided to keep a cash balance of around $1,000,000,000 on hand in case of trouble (i. e., war) abroad...
...original research. At the Academy's convention last week, Optometrist Laurence P. Folsom of South Royalton, Vt., advised his colleagues that "the way to make money from the practice of optometry is to forget money." Dr. Folsom, who reads history, Emerson and the Abbé Dimnet, recommended that cash registers, show cases, "dealer-help" display cards and other such commercial paraphernalia be kept out of the patient's sight, that no clock be placed on the reception room wall for waiting patients to count the minutes...
...nearlyone-third) which made it impossible under Utah law for it to pay any dividends. American faced the prospect of not getting any return on its investment for perhaps ten years. Therefore last spring it made a trade: it gave its holdings of Amalgamated stock plus $270,000 in cash to Amalgamated in exchange for two of Amalgamated's refineries, one at Missoula, Mont., another at Clarksburg, Calif...