Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...historic four-power meeting in September at Munich and which resulted in the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia so fascinated journalists, diplomatic observers, even radio announcers that from their typewriters has come a steady stream of articles, essays and books on the subject. Most of these were sketchy, designed to cash in quickly on Munich's newsworthiness...
...Sweden governs itself. However, Sweden's extraordinary expenditures are for business "investments"-electric power production, mining, communications, liquor, tobacco, even lotteries-which are better than self-supporting and which return income to the Government. Most U. S. extraordinary expenditures (which include billions for WPA) bring little or no cash return...
...canceling the profit from the stock sale. However, on the paper profit ($1,598,000) from acquiring the debentures at the written-down figure, Seiberling Rubber Co. must pay a 19% capital-gains tax of $303,620. Net result: Seiberling Rubber retired its $3,100,000 loan by a cash outlay of $1,805,620 (plus interest). F. A. lost on the deal-but won because his company benefited...
Though nothing green grows on St. Paul, the water around it is often bright green with spawning lobsters. Few fishing grounds on earth are richer. But every attempt to cash in on the St. Paul bonanza has failed. A boat called the Austral disappeared into the fog with all hands. Crews on the Kerguelen and Réve, two other ships which made the attempt, could not stand the chilly weather. Since the sole diet on St. Paul is lobster and fish, a 1931 party of seven got 1) terrible tempers; 2) scurvy. Four of them died...
Ignoring Arita's veiled threat, the U. S. Treasury Department announced last week the indefinite extension of an arrangement with China which permits China, when caught short of cash between her monthly shipments of silver to the U. S., to make and pay for purchases in this country by borrowing from the Treasury's $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund on the security of Chinese gold held in U. S. banks (estimated to be somewhere around $110,000,000). When China's next shipment of silver arrives in the U. S., she sells it to the Treasury...