Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With cash collections totalling approximately $1700, and pledges of about $1000 received from 100 Freshmen yesterday in Memorial Hall, the Student Council drive for funds was still a good distance behind last year at this time...
...year, advancing to $30,000 by rapid salary raises. War and illiteracy will be extinct. Every family will have a $25,000 house. Pensions of $3,000 a year for oldsters will start at once. But none of I.I.U.R.A.'s benefits will be in cash. It will abolish money, substitute a new Utopian medium of exchange...
...opportunity of imposing many of her personal prejudices as rules for contemporary and future generations to follow. Emily Bruce Price Post-who 30-odd years ago married and divorced Edwin Main Post, Manhattan banker and socialite-was but a comely divorcée somewhat in need of cash, a woman whose horizon was largely bounded by Newport and Park Avenue when she unwittingly wrote a book which was to make her fame and fortune. Today, at 64, she is a prosperous businesswoman whose horizon has been considerably broadened by her responsibility as autocrat of U. S. etiquette, by the impact...
...politically, the threat of war in Europe was not even considered a contributing factor in the stockmarket's desultory decline. Then the unthinkable happened. In swift succession the great European markets closed their doors, and the selling of an entire world, hysterically trying to convert securities into cash, concentrated on the New York Stock Exchange. Bravely the governors announced their determination to keep open, but on the morning of July 31, after one look at the overnight accumulation of selling orders, they reluctantly reconsidered. For four months the Stock Exchange was shut tight, timidly reopening only after informal "black...
Last spring, needing cash and thinking the public had it for him, Hearst filed registrations with the Securities & Exchange Commission for $35,500,000 worth of bonds -two issues on two combinations of Hearst magazines and newspaper properties...