Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of May 13, p. 30, Professor Thorndike considers the probability of someone's eating an earthworm in consideration of $100 cash in hand. It might interest him to hear that a man once did eat an earthworm, fresh, fat and raw, for 25? cash, then & there paid by his farmer employer. I did not see it, but I knew both parties and my informant was the employer's son. This throws into my mind some doubt of the value of Professor Thorndike's statistics...
...bill before me provides for . . . paying $1,600,000,000 more than the present value of the certificates. It requires an expenditure of more than $2,200,000,000 in cash for this purpose. It directs payment to the veterans of a much larger sum than was contemplated in the 1924 settlement. It is nothing less than a complete abandonment of that settlement. It is a new, straight gratuity or bounty to the amount...
...with Muscle Shoals. Although TVA owned 223 automobiles and light trucks, its bill for hired passenger cars averaged $8,000 a month. In one period 53 TVA-owned cars drove less than 1,000 miles while the hired cars drove 114,000 miles at 7? a mile rental. The cash registers of TVA's commissaries, cafeterias, etc. recorded receipts differing from a few cents to several hundred dollars a day from the actual cash receipts, the differences being explained by such entries as "cash stolen," "children playing with register...
...shares-not very much less than the holdings of John D. Rockefeller Jr. (2,142,422 shares). From this stock, which Indiana Standard acquired in 1932 by selling foreign oil properties to New Jersey Standard, Mr. Seubert last year counted $2,224,000 dividends into his cash till...
...short years made Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. into the most successful chemical company in the U. S., Orlando Weber planned to retire in 1929. The Depression came. When he quit last week he could proudly point to a $400,000,000 balance sheet with $55,000,000 in cash or its equivalent; more proudly to $200,000,000 paid in dividends with no Depression interruption; and most proudly to the fact that he has never cut wages...