Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unfortunately her coins are silver. When silver touched 81? her coins were worth more as silver bullion than as money. Almost overnight they went out of circulation. Her smallest paper money was the five-peso note (worth about $1.52.) When coins went out of circulation Mexicans could not pay cash for anything worth less than $1.50. Business was at a virtual standstill. Hastily the Government closed every bank in Mexico, all silver coins were ordered turned in to the Government, the printing presses were set busy printing one-peso notes (27.78?), the mints began to stamp out new fractional copper...
...Cash in Bank...
...wall the previous afternoon. The scarcity of wheat caused by Drought had eaten into Manny Rosenbaum's warehouse business. Income from storing other people's wheat (1½? a month per bu.) had sunk out of sight; in its place was a heavy drain on cash for upkeep and taxes. And loans from banks were large. Rosenbaum Grain Corp. filed petitions in Delaware's and Chicago's Federal Courts to reorganize under Section 77b of the Bankruptcy...
...firm from his father about 20 years ago, Trader Rosenbaum began an ambitious program of expansion, considered himself something of an Insull in the grain business. Besides loading himself up with grain elevators, he opened a string of 15 branch offices. Lately he was reported slapping quantities of cash into Polish rye, Argentine corn and oats. Sincerely disliked by many a grain broker for his personality and methods, Manny Rosenbaum was a central figure in the Armour grain scandal of 1925. and the failure of Dean, Onativia & Co., a brokerage house which he helped organize. Last week most of Manny...
...Linscotts. But the Bragdons had never been whiffle-minded, and Gus was the least whiffle-minded of the lot. He went his taciturn way, refused to get religion, left the church when his brethren's intolerance got too foolish for him. He worked long hours, salted away his cash, traded shrewdly in wood lots...