Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paid in cash except Great Britain. She paid $75.94 in cash and the rest in Treasury certificates due next September. These certificates were cancelled, thereby reducing the U. S. public debt...
...sorrow, it was necessary to delay sending the order several weeks. My folks, however, squeezed this amount from the family income and permitted to send the money with the order. The printing outfit proved to be substantial and with it I managed to earn considerable cash, printing tickets and cards and small programs. And all the while I was thinking my work would help me find a job in a printing office...
...Sweringen brothers entered the steam railroad business in 1916 by purchasing the old "Nickel Plate" (New York, Chicago & St. Louis R. R.) from the New York Central for $2,000,000 cash and $6,500,000 credit. Despite old Nickel Plate's official title, it possessed no real terminal facilities at New York, Chicago or St. Louis. To make something of the line, it consequently became necessary to expand it. First they went after and acquired (for $750,000 cash and $2,250,000 credit) the "Clover Leaf" (Toledo, St. Louis & Western), then in a receivership. Next, the brothers...
Their further steps to acquire the Erie, Chesapeake & Ohio and Pere Marquette is recent history (TiME, Aug. 18, Apr. 6, 27). If the I. C. C. approves, a railroad system whose market value is approximately $1,000,000,000 will have been acquired by two men with an initial cash outlay of only $2,000,000. The appreciation in the Van Sweringen stocks has not only done the rest, but also paid them $16,812,809 profit for their pains...
...been built out of its extraordinary earnings. Five years ago, Wardell's five henchmen invested among them a meagre sum in the business. On May 5 last, the Company expanded its capital structure and distributed some of its surplus, in the course of which the five were handed cash to the extent of $4,000,000 and securities worth $8,000,000-the return on their original investment. Most of the five put practically nothing into the business; in 1920, they paid for their stock with notes, paid off the notes with subsequent dividends. It is said in Detroit...