Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might be," said overwrought Nat Patton, "that I used some money out of my own pocket." Over the week-end he recalled ownership of $886 in lien notes and Texas State warrants which, added to $1,100 in mileage and cash on hand," brought his total funds for the period...
...Billions!" Results were that Dictator Mussolini formally assumed the absolute discretion over Italy's gold most foreigners had supposed he always possessed; shipments of munitions to Italy continued at lowest gold cash prices; the lira, after falling nearly ½? on international exchange last week, bounced back; and activity quickened furiously on Italy's bourse. Fiat motors rose from 394 lire to 401; Snia-Viscosa rayon from 401 to 410 and Montecatini mines from 188 to 193. These movements of course reflected fear by Italians that eventually the lira will be forced off the gold standard. Abroad many...
...provides that no correspondent or news service may send dispatches out of Argentina without posting a bond of cash or federal bonds of from 5,000 pesos ($1.656) to 50,000 ($16,560) with the Bank of the Nation. This bond is to remain on deposit until three years after the bonded news purveyor has sent his last dispatch. All dispatches, whether cabled or mailed, must be signed by the bonded sender and filed in scrapbooks at the disposal of the Argentine Post Office. No dispatch will be passed or approved by an Argentine censor in advance, but the Post...
...practical mine the Flin Flon claims looked hopeless. They were 87 miles from the nearest railroad in the depth of Manitoba's bush. Nevertheless Jack Hammell sold the idea to a Manhattan financier without benefit of facts, figures or engineering reports. An investment of $150,000 cash did not even pay the costs of a thorough survey. Another man sank $400,000 in the Flin Flon, then he too gave up. But Jack Hammell still had the Flin Flon options...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, who knew something about mining as well as water travel (see cut), canoed through Manitoba lakes and rivers to inspect the claims in person. Upshot was organization of Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting in 1927 with the Flin Flon claims and $17,500,000 in cash. Jack Hammell and his hungry prospectors had already been paid off on substantially their own terms...