Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been a British supply house. Great Britain has $2,000,000,000 invested in the Argentine (the U. S. about $700,000,000); the British own the biggest Argentine railroad; have customarily taken 40% of all Argentine exports. But where blandishments failed, disillusionment succeeded. Not Munich, but the cash register, disillusioned Senor Lamas, who saw that Britain was steadily shifting its agricultural trade to its colonies, that the Argentine was being set up only as a great emergency storehouse for wartime food supplies...
...their capital of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, onetime President of the Indian National Congress-the first important Indian to go to China since Rabindranath Tagore 15 years ago. Rumors of Japanese penetration in India have worried China; and the friendship of another downtrodden native race had feeling if not cash in it. Pandit Nehru received the biggest welcome ever accorded a foreign visitor. Over 200 officials and representatives of public organizations welcomed him at the pebbly island in the Yangtze which serves Chungking as an airport. Up through streets half-bombed, half-bedecked with banners & posters the Chinese drove their guest...
...deep-sea gyro equipment, Sperry netted a thumping $2,469,576 ($1.23 per share), up 12% from 1938's record first half, up 49% from the first half of 1936 when the armament boom began. Buttressed against wartime demands for working capital, it had $5,768,158 cash, 31% more than last summer...
Students who hope to earn their way through college are warned that they should not expect to earn more than three hundred dollars a year; outside of scholarships and prizes the average earning of three hundred dollars can be received either in kind--room and board--or in cash, depending on the type of work...
Last week provided additional evidence that the Polish crisis was just one of several factors depressing stock prices. War markets have a normal pattern: ordinarily, a war scare forces stock prices down (because businessmen want cash) .and commodity prices up (because Governments and corporations want essential supplies). London markets ran true to form last week; most commodities rose because of speculative war stocking (including heavy copper and rubber buying by Germany). Instead of following the pattern, U. S. commodity prices marched downhill like stocks (the Bureau of Labor Index remained at its low; Dow-Jones and Moody commodity indices each...