Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princess Elizabeth, 23, appointed a new lady-in-waiting to fill a vacancy caused by illness. Among the neophyte's traditional duties: handling the royal purse (British Princesses never carry cash...
...control of Minneapolis' Investors Diversified Services, Inc., the giant catch-all which includes three big investment trusts having assets of $580 million.* It was the same kind of shoestring which Young had used to tie down Alleghany's $2 billion assets in 1937 for $4,000,000 cash...
With some of the cash it raised on these sales Alleghany has already bought into Portsmouth Steel and Interlake Steamship Co., a Great Lakes ore carrier, and increased its holdings of Pittston Co., one of the world's largest coal producers. Wall Streeters also gossiped that Young was casting a buying eye on Western Union and American Express Co., which he thought he could get cheap. Both would fit nicely into his transportation kingdom. For landing big fish like these, Bob Young was readying...
...Waltham Watch Co., which closed down its plant four months ago, had the cash to get started again. But there was one last obstacle. It had on hand 185,000 watches, enough to satisfy the market for some time, and block the new line Waltham wanted to bring out. Last week Waltham found a quick way to get rid of them. It made a deal with the Associated Merchandising Corp. to clear out all the watches it could at half-price through A.M.C.'s 24 retail outlets...
...thief entered the Graduate Student's Center at 18 Appian Way between 10:15 and 10:30 p.m. last night and made off with a cash box containing...