Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formed Reynard Corp., with himself as president, his brother Barton and his lawyer, C. E. Kelley, as fellow directors, and $60,000 of his own cash and bonds as capital. President Fox thereupon contracted to sell Reynard Corp. his services as a cartoonist for $30,000 a year. Reynard Corp. in turn contracted with the Bell Syndicate to sell the Fox drawings for $1,500 a week, later raised to $2,000. With its profits Reynard Corp. built President Fox a house and studio at Roslyn, L. L, paid his life-insurance premiums. When suspicious Internal Revenue agents learned that...
...Manhattan, latest reports were that 25,000,000 barrels of Mexican oil are what friends of Rickett & Smith want to buy, below the world price of oil. And from this purchase the Mexican Government would get some of the quick cash it needs to keep going, make first compensation payments, and thus have a chance of getting the U. S. Treasury to resume the silver purchases from Mexico, canceled after the oil expropriation (TIME, April...
...that "the courts" will deal with former Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg because he "criminally" ordered a "fake plebiscite," later canceled on the demand of Hitler (TIME, March 21). "None of Schuschnigg's supporters died for their convictions!" jeered Daredevil Göring. "But some of them fled with the cash box! . . . The tyrant was swept away and our troops marched in as brothers of a liberated people." Since there were undoubtedly hundreds, probably thousands of former supporters of Kurt von Schuschnigg in the throng of 25,000, their cheers were not entirely without significance...
After working, eating and sleeping, most U. S. citizens have some 40 hours a week left. They may loaf, talk, read, walk in the park. But their biggest single recreation, accounting for one-fifth of their spare time and a bigger proportion of their spare cash, is commercial entertainment. The U. S. people each year spend about $10,000,000,000 (an estimated one-fifth of their income) for all forms of recreation, including their public parks. One-third to one-half of this goes to the biggest U. S. industry-commercial recreation...
...General Motors 65,000, Chrysler 30,000. Last week WPA announced that for the first time in four months Detroit relief rolls fell. Said Ford Sales Manager John Raymond Davis, who conceived the used car drive: "From 30% to 60% of the transactions made by our dealers were for cash. This is a healthy situation. . . . In other words, there was no straining of credit to get these satisfactory results...