Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government. They also could be "spent" at any grocery, but only for farm produce officially listed as surplus: butter, eggs, flour, cornmeal, prunes, dried beans, citrus fruits. Grocers who took Miss McFiggins' stamps, or wholesalers who accepted them as payment from retailers, can cash them for ordinary money at any bank, for they are drafts on the U. S. Treasury...
...drastic criticisms, which were approved unanimously by the House, the committee urged the development of locally administered systems of medical care for the indigent, suggested that only States "in actual heed" be given Federal grants to help their indigents. Moreover, the Committee insisted that States give their "medical indigents" cash benefits to pay doctors' bills, and abandon the custom of paying doctors through relief agencies. This would preserve for physicians the privilege of adjusting the size of their bills...
...passed, no edict issued. Investors were simply advised that their cash is needed at home to finance rearmament, that the pound sterling must not be weakened by further flight of capital. This step towards totalitarian economics produced no excitement. Sir John simply wished, and British-fashion, business "assented...
...float a rearmament loan of $1,500,000,000-three times as much as the British have spent buying U. S. securities since 1935. For some time he has been hinting that he could not raise all this money so long as Englishmen remained free to put their investment cash into U. S. securities. Meanwhile, since 1935, Englishmen, fearful of war, had shipped $500,000,000 to the U. S., now have about $1,000,000,000 invested in marketable U. S. securities. Silent pressure has gradually reduced the flow, since first of the year it has subsided. Sir John...
...Martin Company turned a net profit of $1,144,858. Last year it made $2,349,355 (equal to $2.15 a share) and in the first quarter of this year it made $682,496. Yet Martin has never paid a cash dividend, has ploughed back its earnings into plant expansion and reserve...