Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answer to these grim forebodings, rain fell on South Dakota this week and the Department of Agriculture pointed out that farmers' cash income for the first six months of 1936 was $335,000,000 higher than for the same period in 1935. Cheerily declared five Midwest farm journals in The Agricultural Outlook: "Past experience shows that drought does not necessarily curtail farm income when consumer buying power and general economic conditions are improving...
...test the reported willingness of bankers & brokers to back Alf M. Landon at 5-to-8 odds, the pro-Roosevelt New York Daily News sent a newshawk to Wall Street with $1,600 in cash. Unable to find anyone to bet $1,000 on the Republican nominee, the newshawk reversed his position, promptly discovered a Roosevelt supporter who bet $1,400 against his $1,000 that the President would...
...back as 1932, he asserted, he had begun writing to Government officials of China, Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Russia begging for employment as an aviation instructor. All turned down his services. Last nation he approached was Japan, asking a $50,000 cash advance, a salary as commander in the Japanese Navy. An unidentified Japanese opened negotiations with him, required evidence of his qualifications for the job. From the Navy Department Farnsworth obtained a batch of photographs showing U. S. battleships. Before turning his own copy of the supposedly secret Navy handbook over to the Japanese, Farnsworth said, he had checked...
...Chiang's capital at Nanking. What looked to the Chinese masses like the long-awaited war with Japan was soon revealed to be just plain old-fashioned civil war, as Chiang's Press asserted that the ostensibly anti-Japanese Southerners had actually received Japanese guns, planes and cash. Last week a Chinese maelstrom of bribes, manifestoes, circular telegrams and tentative skirmishes reached its climax...
...Dealer Paul Rosenberg and Director Fiske Kimball of Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Museum of Art got together on a landscape painted in 1904, two years before the artist's death. Dealer Rosenberg reasonably priced his Cèzanne at $40,000, knocked off 10% for spot cash...