Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When about $500 in arrears, I took stock of my position, confiding in one of the selectmen and proffering him my note in lieu of immediate cash. His attitude was, unfortunately, one of sympathy and tolerance. People are sometimes kind when strict reality is more in order...
...SUnshine streamed in-Gail is getting well." Jujitsu & Tears. In a nearby column was a "blonde Portia" who was her own lawyer in her suit against her father and stepmother. They wanted to "railroad" her to an insane asylum, she said, purportedly to get their hands on her cash. One day she used jujitsu on an opposing lawyer; the next day she "became the traditionally soft woman-tears and all ... broke down . . . and wept freely . . . several jurors and spectators wept with...
...King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia was in trouble. The war had cut off the annual Moslem pilgrimages to Mecca, a prime source of his revenue. Ibn Saud needed cash, and he thought the quickest way to get it was to ask Arabian American Oil Co., which held the rich Saudi Arabian oil concession, to fork over an extra $6,000,000 a year. Aramco balked. But in far-off New York was a man who thought he could fix things...
Telephones. American Telephone & Telegraph Co., which already holds the record for the largest corporate securities offering ($357 million), will better its mark. It planned a new bond issue of about $391 million, to be dated June 20. A.T. & T. will use the cash to help finance its $2 billion expansion program...
...profit-sharing plan. Since 1916, when Sears, Roebuck first set up the plan, it has matched the workers' annual 5% contributions with a percentage of the company's profits. The company's payment for 1947 totaled $18,848,363. Total worth of stock and cash in the fund: $216.5 million...