Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amount of the Italian-British debt was itself a matter of negotiation. The indebtedness was contracted partly in kind, and when in cash at different rates of interest, and was originally partly contingent upon "the amount of aid supplied to British troops by Italy" and other intangible factors. Two weeks ago, honest Italians considered the alleged original Italian total offer of 380 million pounds too high; and honest Britons felt the alleged initial British demand of 580 million pounds too low. As Count Volpi put it, in his now famous "favorite English sentence": "It all depends on how you look...
...facts are that the World made the utmost efforts to buy the House memoirs in the precise form in which they will appear in the Herald Tribune. It made actually one of the largest cash offers, and had it been successful would have published the series...
Last week, however, a youth whose face shone clean and pleasant beneath his black skullcap, said something just as Joe was opening the cash-drawer to "oblige" him. The youth said: "I'm John D, Rockefeller III. I. . . ." Sock! went the cash-drawer, tight shut. Joe wiped a glass on his spotted apron. The freshman stammered, expostulated. Finally Joe spoke. "Nutting doing," he said around his cigar-stub. "A guy worked dat on me last year...
...President C. W. Nash announced a 900% stock dividend. He also stated that the company in nine years of life had accumulated an undivided surplus of $25,000,000; that its last year's net profits were $16,256,216; that there was over $24,000,000 of cash, after setting aside nearly $9,000,000 for the further retirement of preferred stock. All of this was, in more than one respect, an automobile record...
...public interest is not always accompanied by commensurate public financial support. The Museum received $400,000 in cash and specimens last year from benefactors, which was more than in any prior year. Yet in making his annual report of the Museum's affairs last week, President Henry Fairfield Osborn* was obliged to tell the trustees that the institution was financially crippled...