Word: cashiering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clarence Saunders astounded the grocery trade by starting Piggly-Wiggly Stores, Inc., in which customers did most of the work, got their groceries cheaply. Receiving a basket at an entrance turnstile, a shopper picked up her own purchases, carried them to the cashier's desk at the exit. By 1923 Grocer Saunders was rich and Piggly-Wiggly was a $7,000,000 corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Enraged at reports of wolfish raids on Piggly-Wiggly, Mr. Saunders once rushed to Manhattan in a special train with "a bag of gold" estimated...
...walk on the golf course just at that moment." The man in charge of the camp canteen, one James Mariano who claimed he had been a "drunk, pick pocket and strong-arm man," told an Assembly audience that "the canteen is directed by the Holy Spirit. We have no cashier. You simply go in and take what you want and pay for it and be God-guided all the time you are there." Said Camp Cook Francis Flannagan: "We have our quiet times in the morning so that through guidance we may make our menus...
Chase National Bank's Assistant Cashier Mary Vail Andress reported that the ratio of investments to loans in Federal Reserve member banks had risen from 44% in 1925 to 150% in 1936. "From my reading of Biblical literature I infer that Eve was created for Adam's express company," observed Miss Andress. "From my readings of financial literature I infer that commercial banks now exist for the express purpose of financing Government deficits...
...Clair River from Port Huron, Mich. Into the shop stepped two holdup men, one small and wizened, the other masked with a black silk handkerchief. Both waved revolvers, made the customers line up face to the wall while the larger bandit climbed the wire partition to the cashier's drawer, scooped up the cash, climbed back again, ordering all the customers to file into the liquor room. What happened next was best described by one Jack Cosley, who had been buying two bottles of wine for his dinner...
...Golden Arrow (Warner) is a minor comedy based upon the theory that a pressagent for a cosmetic company could make headlines by: 1) establishing a cafeteria cashier as a cold cream heiress; 2) grooming her to marry a European title; 3) publicizing her $30-a-week newshawk husband as ''the American Cinderella Man." This is Bette Davis' first film since she won an Academy award for acting in Dangerous (TIME, March 16)- a fact of which Warner Brothers made much use in their advertising. Although Miss Davis still can make her eyes pop and her lips droop...