Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...California, or just off its coast at Long Beach, the Johanna Smith, onetime lumber ship, dropped anchor a month ago. Last week the United Press discovered it. Aboard were 13 gaming tables, 38 slot machines and a cash girl trained to give 18 quarter-dollars in exchange for a $5 bill. "Guests" were being taken aboard from the shore in speedboats, 40 at a load, 25? for the ride. The exposure published by the United Press seemed to be motivated by the alleged fact that the Johanna Smith's operators had thus far entertained some 10,000 persons...
Like Alfred Loewenstein, shrewd Belgian financier, now dead by a fall from his plane, Valparaiso's Loewenstein uses his airplane to increase his business. To every customer who buys $25 worth of groceries for cash he gives a lengthy air ride-to the chagrin of his torpid competitors...
...difference exists between the naval requirements of Great Britain and France. The Empire depends primarily upon surface craft to rule waves. The Republic must rely upon submarines to blow up such surface ships as approach her shores-because France has a huge army to support and cannot spare the cash to compete with Great Britain in surface warboats. Submarines, being the cheapest effective naval weapon of defense, are in high favor with the "coast-defensive"* navies of France...
...mortgaged to the limit and not a thing of my own except that which is due me at the office. If that had come in when it was due this could have been avoided. My only message to the dentists with whom I have worked is to work for cash only; credit will only bring trouble...
...many a country newspaper. Young Block became adept in garnering rich advertising contracts. By 1898 he felt able to start out in business for himself. Ten years later, he bought the Newark Star-Eagle at a receiver's sale for $235,000. It required all his savings in cash, some...