Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accordance with a policy tried out last fall, the Treasury last week sent forth word asking holders of Third Liberty Loan bonds to offer them directly to the Government for cash through Federal Reserve Banks. The owners of the bonds may set the price at which they offer them, and the Government will buy those offered at the lowest prices. In this way it is planned to invest about $100,000,000 of the sinking fund for public debt retirement. Proposals must be made before March 10, and payment will be made on March...
...certificate and $2,000 in cash went to H. G. Weaver of General Motors. He indexed every county in the U. S. as to effective consumer-power, to insure economy and efficiency of advertising...
That premier of journalists, Defoe, when misfortune cased his sturdy limbs with the tiobers of the pillory, invoked his muse and made some cash thereby. And Francois Villon was a poet though a picaroon. So Gerald Chapman, writing heroically unheroic couplets in his cloistered corner of Connecticut, has precedent preponderous--even more precedent than the verse demands...
...time one half hour before each meal was allowed for eating, making a total of five hours and 50 minutes of actual work. Thus in a bi-weekly period the waiters were to work 40 hours and 50 minutes, for which they would receive 21 meals and $8.00 in cash (or meals), that is the equivalent of two weeks' meals less $1.50, or $.43 an hour. These men were to work under a professional headwaiter and a steward, who are under the supervision of the Superintendent of Dining Halls. The waiters so employed would at all times be subject...
...Blair & Co., Inc., and the Chase Securities Corporation were authors of a transaction which if executed entirely in cash, will fall only a million short of the record-setting Dodge buy by Dillon, Read & Co. They took over a block of nearly 300,000 shares (55%) of the Associated Oil Co., second in rank only to the Standard Oil Co. of California on the Pacific coast. The price agreed on was $59 cash, or $145,000,000 if all stockholders demanded cash instead of exchange securities, about $165,000,000 if exchange alone was made. Associated Oil, owned by Pacific...