Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night in the months that followed, he entered darkened mansions wearing a black mask, and collected jewels and expensive furs. One night, a wealthy New Rochelle boat builder named Tulloch refused to cooperate; Dennis shot him coolly and neatly through the hand and walked out with $1,200 in cash and $3,000 worth of jewelry...
...During the war, I got an uncomfortable feeling that there was nobody really underneath me until you got to the copy boys." After the war, Heir-Apparent Kauffmann started replacing the oldtimers with younger, more vigorous department heads. By last week, they were a smooth team. With a clinking cash register (last year the Star was seventh in the U.S. in ad volume), President Kauffmann had no intention of interfering with able Editor Benjamin M. McKelway, 53, who was re-elected last week. And Ben McKelway had no intention of changing the Star's editorial formula of printing local...
...counter, at $3,005 bid, $3,055 asked. Even at that price, it seemed to be a bargain. By buying a share of Christiana, an investor would indirectly own 19½ shares of Du Pont stock, almost three shares more than if he had spent the same amount of cash to buy Du Pont stock...
After last fortnight's sharp drop in grain prices, traders last week hoped that prices might steady. Instead, the biggest sinking spell in a year hit the Chicago grain pits at midweek. In one day, all grain futures tumbled their legal limits. In the cash markets, corn hit its lowest price since April 1945 (at Chicago, No. 2 yellow corn dropped from $1.27 a bushel to $1.17). Oats and rye also broke through the levels of OPA days...
...expected to have to do the same with as much as 600 million bushels of corn-more than is normally sold commercially in a year. But with most storage space filled, a huge amount of "free grain" not encompassed by the support program had been thrown on the market. Cash corn had been driven as much as 40? below the support price, and wheat down to 20? below its support level...