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Word: cashing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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People say Miss Talley acquired some half million dollars from her brief career. That may not be so good as Gene Tunney did, but at least it looks as though she knew what she wanted even if the business men of Kansas who put the cash up for her start in art did not. And now the mid-western ingenue has an opportunity to show her gratitude to a nation of music-lovers by helping to solve the country's agricultural problem. Meanwhile, explaining to magazine fans why she did not choose to sing may be a profitable side-line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "IT IS DESTINY" | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...Canton was brought suddenly to heel last week by President Chiang will not soon be known with certainty; but quite possibly huge bribes turned the trick, as they often do in China, for it is known that the Treasury was abruptly tapped by the President for $5,000,000 cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rebels Abscond | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Business men, said he last week, should be licensed. The prospective retailer should be given an examination in stock turnover, in markups, in cash discounts, in keeping books. According to Professor Converse, the average corporate life is less than six years and from 45% to 50% of retailers vanish from the merchandising world in less than five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: License | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...Away from this flourishing city in the Yellow Sea vamoosed its rightful defender, General Liu Chen-nien; and victoriously in marched dread Marshal Chang Tsung-chang (TIME, March 7, 1927). Within an hour Chefoo's terrified Chinese Chamber of Commerce had presented the marshal with $100,000 spot cash gold, in return for his promise not to issue his favorite order, "Loot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Five Bars Hoisted | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...company with Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. as a director. Last week it reported on its first four months of corporate life. Scanners of its balance sheet were somewhat puzzled to account for the ten million dollar estimate of size. The company had $186,000 cash on hand and in banks, $350,000 in the call loan market, some $78,000 in fixed assets. Of its $9,509,866.44 total assets, no less than $8,892,604.89 consisted of book value of patents and patent rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Televisionary Assets | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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