Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legislation which makes it impossible for a nation which is in default on its debts to the U. S. (i.e., nearly all of Europe) to borrow any more U. S. money, and the drafters of the 1937 Neutrality Act which prohibits sales to belligerents other than on a dockside cash & carry basis. This camp also includes such public spokesmen as Mr. Herbert Hoover, Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith of South Carolina, who is suspicious of all foreigners, and Senator Bob Reynolds of North Carolina who wears a feather in his hat to show that he is against all isms but Americanism...
When the conclave of 1922 gathered, there was almost no ready cash in the Vatican. Foresighted Pius XI reserved a fund for the next conclave, and last week the three Cardinals in charge had a reported $100,000 for its expenses. These were bound to be large. Seldom has the Sacred College been so full as it was last week (62 members out of a possible 70), and even its two ailing members planned to attend, with their physicians. Preparations for the gathering involved redding-up 62 modest bedchambers for Cardinals, as well as quarters for 62 ecclesiastical secretaries...
...bold infringement of this humanitarian code. Five of the eight doctors serving the 3,000 souls of Atmore, Ala., and five of their colleagues in cotton-growing Escambia County printed an advertisement in the Atmore Advance warning Escambia County's prospective mothers that henceforth they would demand cash on delivery. The ad: "We wish to take this means of letting the public know that ... all obstetrical (labor) cases will be done on a strictly cash basis...
Soon learning there was no spot cash up that alley, the young inventor turned to more practical pursuits. To earn money for his first pair of long pants, he invented a thief-proof auto lock which netted him $25. At 19 he was working in a railroad yard. Then he landed a job in the fund-raising office of George Everson, a San Franciscan with brains and friends...
...Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, television remained something U. S. citizens heard much about but seldom saw. Last week the U. S. heard something more about television: after twelve years Philo Farnsworth was to have his own manufacturing company with two factories and over $2,500,000 in cash behind it, one of RCA's major executives at its head. And vast RCA was to have its first full-fledged competitor in television...