Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress gave Franklin Roosevelt the kind of Neutrality Act he wanted fortnight ago, profiseers dusted off their crystal globes, looked hard and long, saw a billion dollars worth of lush war orders for U. S. industry. To the U. S. came seven foreign missions, ready to take advantage of cash-&-carry. Up to this week their checkbooks still bristled with unused checks...
...confirmed. World War II is a war of caution and just as France and Britain got together and agreed to correlate purchases to keep from bidding against each other, so they have been cautious in other ways. Mindful that this time purchases in the U. S. are for cash, which has to be laid on the barrel-head, they are shopping carefully. For the same reason Britain is buying everything she can in her own financial dominions where she does not have to pay in foreign exchange...
...Cash in Hand...
...taxes unpaid since 1932. That was 40% of its tax bill for that period. It had paid the rest. Month ago the State threatened to go to court to collect its bill for 1932-1933 ($7,230,000 of taxes, penalties & interest). With only $2,360,000 cash on hand to meet the tax bill, Jersey Central escaped to the courts...
Since it is clear to most observers that the President wants to help the Allies in every way short of war, it seems likely that his heart was never really in the cash and carry law. To him it was no more than a quick way to drive a shrewd political bargain. And now the Panama registry plan has evidently appeared to the President an easy means of retrieving a part of the price he had to pay. With it, he can not only do the Allies a good turn, but also placate the aroused shipping interests...