Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...estate, "Epping Forest," his art collection, his yachts. To his four children and a brother-in-law executor, 5,000 shares each in his personal holding company, Almours Securities Inc. To other relations and retainers, securities and annuities. Income from the bulk of the estate, plus $1,000,000 cash and "Nemours," his famed Wilmington estate, with its 1,600 acres and fine mansion, goes to establish a foundation to house and care for crippled children or aged poor, preferably of Delaware...
...rider" attached to one of the administration's pet appropriation measures. These new bills, it is rumored, would give the Precident greater freedom in choosing means of raising the two billion dollars. He would be allowed to draw from the four billion relief fund, or borrow the necessary cash from the banks--thus, in one sense avoiding ugly immediate inflationary dangers...
...there are a great many of the latter. What Mrs. Walrath wanted of the five assembled men was $5,000 with which she could make the cash payment on a $15,500 house she had in mind as the nursery's headquarters. Then & there Mrs. Walrath's listeners-U. S. Gypsum's Sewell Lee Avery, Pure Oil's Henry Dawes (brother), Franklin MacVeagh's Rollin H. Keyes (since deceased), Carson Pirie Scott's Frederick Hossack Scott, Butler Bros.' Frank H. Cunningham-gave the necessary $1,000 each...
From a bootblack chair at Chicago's University Club, Vice President Frederick Lee McNally of Rand, McNally & Co. (books, atlases) toppled, cracked his skull. While his wife was visiting him in a hospital, burglars stripped their apartment of jewelry, cash and clothing worth...
...ancient as merchandizing itself, premium promotion still has an unfailing appeal to the something-for-nothing instinct- though some companies make a tidy profit on their premiums by requesting cash along with wrappers, box tops, coupons and other evidences of consuming interest. In periods of stiff competition premium promotion shaves close to outright price-cutting, and a strenuous effort was made to ban premiums in XRA codes. But the premium makers succeeded in keeping no-premium clauses out of all except the Bakers and Oil Codes, are currently thriving. Another boon that has helped loft premium sales in the past...