Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manager Bill Terry of the New York Giants took Second-Baseman Burgess Whitehead from the St. Louis Cardinals in exchange for Pitcher Leroy Parmelee and cash. The Cardinals' Dizzy Dean promptly dittied: "Paul and Me and Parmelee," bragged that the three of them would win 60 games...
...alike. That was the week that Charles Gates Dawes negotiated his notorious $90,000,000 RFC loan for his now defunct Central Republic. Long queues in the main banking rooms of First National were not dispersed until President Melvin Alvah Traylor addressed the crowd, explaining that he had enough cash for each & every depositor, that First National had weathered the Chicago Fire, had weathered other depressions, would weather this...
...cash they were sent...
Charles Franklin Kettering grew up on an Ohio farm, strained his eyes reading in bad light, had to get a friend to do his reading for him while he was studying at Ohio State. After working at National Cash Register, Mr. Kettering and Edward Andrew Deeds started Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co., sold Delco lighting plants to U. S. farmers. His best known invention-the self-starter for motorcars -was developed for Henry M. Leland, onetime head of Cadillac. General Motors got Mr. Kettering when they got Delco and Mr. Kettering is now head of General Motors Research Division...
Richard H. Grant is the G. M. salesman. At 35 he was sales manager for National Cash Register, under John H. Patterson, father of high-pressure selling. Next he sold Delco home-lighting units to U. S. farmers. After General Motors acquired the Delco Company, Frigidaire was combined with Delco and Mr. Grant added the iceless icebox to his sales triumphs. In 1924 he became Chevrolet sales manager, did for Chevrolet sales what Mr. Knudsen did for Chevrolet production. Since 1934 he has been vice president in charge of sales for the entire General Motors line...