Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gilbert, Agent General of Reparations, announced last week on the second anniversary of the inauguration of the Dawes Plan, that he has received this year 1,211,950,000 gold marks ($288,444,100) in reparations payments. For the first time a portion of the transfers were made in cash, totaling 65,000,000 gold marks, of which the U. S. received $5,904,770. This sum amounts to roughly 2½% of the total of $245,000,000 scheduled for payment to the U. S. within 20 years under the Dawes Plan...
...Lester Price, 23, ambled through Philadelphia's narrow streets. He was hungry, tired, and just after passing a cathedral's steps he noted a door open in a nearby residence. He entered, slept, awoke hours later, beheld a safe the lock of which opened readily. He beheld cash, bonds, ecclesiastical jewelry, a chalice and a golden, diamond-studded cross belonging to the owner of the residence, Cardinal Dougherty. Lester took the jewelry, cash, bonds, valued at $4,000-left the chalice and cross worth over $25,000. "I knew they would jinx me," he said when caught, jailed...
...Shipping Board, made the announcement that exact specifications for submitting the bids would be published on Sept. 15, that all bids must be in before noon, Nov. 8. All bidders must be U. S. citizens, must guarantee ten years of service on the lines, must pay 25% cash. In the event that no bids should be satisfactory, the Government will continue operation of the lines...
Senator James Couzens, onetime a partner of Henry Ford, and always a level-headed economist, last December organized a $1,000,000 corporation to manufacture iceless refrigerators. His model was to sell for one-half the present price of such coolers. But the buyer must pay cash...
Interpreneur Couzens has learned that not enough U. S. householders are yet willing to pay cash for even a standardized iceless refrigerator. They are habituated to the trade custom of instalment payments. So, last week, Mr. Couzens in disgust dissolved his company...