Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Club, also served as Shepherd of the plebeian Lambs. For years he never missed a first night on Broadway, yet was always at work at 8:15 o'clock the following morning, writing all his business letters in longhand. And when he bought pieces of art, he paid cash for them...
...through a column or two. most readers were too dazed to proceed. But the gist of M. de la Marti's plan was to establish a "World Record Service . . . for carrying out competitions in all fields of economic activity, with new and hitherto unknown stimulus, and with large cash prizes. . . . The journal or official organ will be the central supporting beam for the success of the competitions and announcements, and the financial part of the enterprise. Its circulation will be enormous. ... To facilitate the work of the World Record Service a HOUSE OF NATIONS will be founded in every...
...rear of its Bar Harbor Express near Wallingford, Conn., bringing death to 21, injuries to 50, much criticism to the railroad. To Miss Jean Annett of Red Bank, N. J.. whose neck had been broken and whose life had been despaired of, the company gave $10,000 cash, promised her $700 a month for life. Last week the New Haven, deep in Section 77-B reorganization, asked the courts to relieve it of further obligation to Miss Annett who, though confined to a wheel chair, remains alive and continues to collect. To date she has received...
...power to regulate margin requirements. Fortnight ago, sensing the growing speculative fever, Chairman Eccles upped maximum margin requirements from 45% to 55% (TIME, Feb. 3). Some bankers believe that even if the Board shut down, as it can. on all market credit, a fancy boom could occur on a cash basis. Their point is that while credit may be shut off at one spigot it might still flow at another, spill into the market since as soon as it is disbursed by check one man's credit becomes another man's cash...
...control of a good little company, manufacture a good product, sell it under a good trade name. Two young men who did that were Thomas Harry Banfield and the late Cyrus Jury Parker, partners in a Portland, Ore. construction firm that they founded in 1909 with $700 cash. They did not discover their product until 1923, when they bought a local iron works as an adjunct to their contracting...