Word: cash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Though he can neither read nor write, 25-year-old Lewis West of Miami, a Negro, managed to get himself sentenced to 23 months in prison for forgery. His method: he simply stole Government checks from a mailbox, marked them with an X and got obliging neighborhood merchants to cash them...
...shopping guides, then merged them into one citywide newspaper with sub-editions for each major suburb. Eventually he had hoped to convert the Independent into a daily. But advertising had come in too slowly, and Publisher Parton had stretched his financial shoestring too far and too fast. In cash and credit, he had spent $600,000. Said Parton: "Our war chest was too small...
Haile Selassie wrote from Addis Ababa for a supply of Little Blue Books; Admiral Byrd took along a complete set to the South Pole; Franklin P. (Information Please) Adams is a steady customer. For kings and commoners, Haldeman-Julius has one inflexible rule: cash in advance. He grosses around $500,000 a year, but the profit on the average Blue Book is a bare two-tenths of 1?. Even so, Haldeman-Julius, though still a talking Socialist, can indulge a taste for champagne and crepes suzette, keep up a 160-acre farm...
...talks about the plant were still going on, Ford and the Israelis signed their first big deal, a $4,000,000 contract for 1,800 U.S.-made trucks and buses, which Ford will start shipping this fall. The terms: Israel will put up 40%, or $1,600,000 in cash (from a $100 million credit already advanced by the Export-Import Bank), and Ford will give Israel a three-year credit for the 60% balance...
Trust Fund. In Dallas, Earnest S. Powell told police that two hold-up men had settled, in lieu of cash, for a $15 check...