Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...merchandise slip from Saks Fifth Avenue. They saw a $1,700 diamond wristwatch go for $550, a $1,000 tile bathroom for $430, a $900 home workshop for $410. When the auctioneer's gavel fell for the last time, the Cohens had taken in about $4,000 in cash from their $28,000 windfall. After lawyer bills, warehouse rentals, auctioneer's commission, taxes and Mrs. Cohen's five weeks' lost salary were deducted, they hoped they would just about break even. Sighed Mrs. Cohen: "I never hope to win anything again. Once is enough...
...announcement in World Series week that Danny was back in the fold, and had signed with the St. Louis Cardinals for $5,000 a year, caused little flurry. But last week, with the series over and Gardella asserting loudly that "there was no cash settlement," sportwriters began speculating about what kind of a settlement baseball might have made with Danny and his lawyers. The guesses ranged...
...Waldorf in 1942 when he bought a batch of Hotel Waldorf-Astoria Corp. bonds with a face value of $500,000 for $22,500, or 4? on the dollar. A few years later, after the bonds had soared, he sold out at a profit of $412,000 to raise cash to buy Chicago's Palmer House. But he never forgot his goal. Last week, Connie Hilton proudly announced that he had reached it. Both he and the Waldorf's stockholders had signed the deal, and barring "a fire, an atom bomb or a nuisance suit," the Waldorf would...
...which has always proved a friend in need for Henry Kaiser, came through last week with a $34.4 million loan for Kaiser-Frazer. RFC said some of the cash would be used to tool up for a complete line of cars. (K-F now makes only four-door sedans.) Detroit also heard that about $5,000,000 would be used to turn out a car for under $1500 to challenge Ford, Plymouth and Chevrolet. Henry Kaiser, who has paid back $67.6 million of his federal loans, now owes the government $149.8 million...
...successively, in a hole in the ground, a forge, a bran trough in a livery stable, a barrel and a saloon toilet. To eat, he scavenged saloons and stole. Backsliding into respectability, he lived for a while with his grandmother, who made him get a job as a store "cash boy"-a trying occupation for a boy as sorely tempted as Fields was. Then, at the age of 14, he became a juggler in an amusement park. After that, his only work was to make people laugh...