Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seemed to forget those favors, and there were even some who demanded the repayment of loans they claimed to have made him. One, a wealthy notable, was particularly merciless. As we had no money, we sent him some of our valuable treasures, but he would accept nothing but cash. This and other pathetic incidents bred in my susceptible mind a hatred of injustice. I was a gloomy youth throughout my student days, with an inclination to read extremist literature from Western Europe...
...textile comeback slowly achieved in the face of competition from synthetics and from abroad. By the end of the month, according to the U. S. Census Bureau's report last week, U. S. cotton textile mills had absorbed 7,361,700 bales of the South's great cash crop, thereby establishing in eleven months an all-time record for domestic consumption during the twelve-month cotton year from August i to August i. Best previous year: 1926-27, with 7,189,585 bales...
...British traders than they had from the French, whose military defeats amounted to no more than the defeat of a business competitor. Philadelphia arms merchants now solved the difficulty of selling their wares by stirring the patriotic fervor of church congregations to the point where they put up the cash for guns to arm the settlers. Smith raised a white war party of his own, outfitted them with breechclouts, knives, tomahawks; prescribed blackened faces, red-topped skulls, plenty of red war paint. Drill consisted in teaching his 50 men straight Indian tactics. Then nothing more was seen or heard...
...preferred stock in the new company. Alleghany's capitalization is more complicated-common stock, two issues of preferred, three bond issues. Two of the bond issues will be assumed by the new company. Holders of the third issue, the famed 5s of 1950, will be offered $200 in cash, $800 in preferred stock of the new company for each $1,000 bond. Holders of Alleghany prior preferred will be offered $7.50 in cash and one-half a share of new prior preferred. For Alleghany's old preferred, which owes approximately $34 per share in accumulated back dividends...
...great Hearst retrenchment plan of 1937, necessitated by the fact that not even William Randolph Hearst can carry losing properties indefinitely and that he, though hale at 74, is getting no younger. His plans to mortgage a big portion of his properties to the public for $35,500,000 cash remained stalled in SEC last week and pending their approval, by a none-too-friendly Administration, Mr. Hearst's feelings must have continued akin to those of Hearst employes who still waited to see the full extent of the great retrenchment. Reassuring to the staff of his Chicago Herald...