Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under a flagstone walk the searchers found a metal box containing some $9,000 of the Fall River robbery cash, plus a sugar bag crammed with nickels. On the walls of the hidden vault they found stains which looked like blood. From under the veranda they raked some bones which they thought were human. Under the kitchen floor they found $10,000 more of the Fall River money...
...Virginia now have lower taxes than in almost any other state, insisted on a pay-as-you-go system of highway building, increased the mileage 45%. When he took office Virginia had a deficit of $1,368,000. When he left office after four years, he left a cash surplus...
...much money, paid in cash, would you eat a quarter of a pound of cooked human flesh, supposing that the fact . . . will appear next day on the front page of all the New York papers...
Professor Thorndike, nursing a suspicion that many of his subjects were liars, wished he had real money to offer them. Wrote he: "A person setting $1,000,000 as the price for eating an earthworm might well do it for $100 if someone actually put the cash before...
...stake in the coursing meet is $1,500, well under the cash to be won on racing tracks in Miami. But for breeders the coursing meet outranks any race because its results determine supremacy of blood lines. Breeders' big money comes from the sale of pups. Untried pups from winning sires & dams bring up to $500. A breeder normally raises about one-third of every litter (from six to twelve whelps). The rest die naturally or are killed because they show no promise. No racing & coursing greyhound ever runs loose. It spends its first year in an enclosure, then...