Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foreign Relations Committee, brought forth a plan to amend the present law so that the President need no longer prohibit munitions sales to belligerent nations, but only forbid U. S. ships to transport any goods to belligerents and U. S. nationals to travel on belligerents' ships. A "cash & carry" plan for all exports to belligerents would obviously work against Adolf Hitler, who in case of war with England and France would lack both cash to buy and ships to carry...
That would please no one more than the Vargas Government, because in practice the Germans, to get foreign exchange, have ruthlessly resold in other markets the coffee and cocoa they got from Brazil by barter, depressing prices at the expense of Brazil's best cash crops. One quick effect of the deal was felt in Wall Street, where Brazilian 1941 8's jumped from...
...arose. Unless he paid the safe deposit rent regularly, the company would open the box and find the bombs. Having no key, he could not remove them in secret. The price of safety was $10 box rent annually. So for 21 years he paid blackmail to the devil in cash. Even so his secret was not safe. This winter the safe deposit company decided to move. He could do nothing. So finally Reinhold Faust's box was duly opened. Having heard this story, Municipal Court Judge Matthew D. Hartigan freed Reinhold Faust...
When Canada finally found several years ago that it needed an airline to speed mail and passengers between cities in its best populated strip just north of the U. S. border, its smart decision was that it would do no experimenting, would cash in instead on what U. S. airlines had learned, little by little, the hard way. Beyond its own necessity for the transcontinental route, it had the added responsibility of hooking up its centres with Imperial Airways' transatlantic service scheduled for opening this summer...
Judge Shearn was not only an old friend of Hearst's; he was close to a good source of credit, the Chase, and Hearst had to have cash. He had several long talks with his old friend and on June 23 Mr. Hearst's beloved American folded. On June 27 of 1937 Judge Shearn became indisputable ruler of almost everything that is Hearst...