Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight with Oldtimer Fred Apostoli when a mood struck him. He wired a friend for $300. When the money came, he hopped a plane, unkempt, unshaven and still dressed in his training clothes. A snowstorm that grounded the plane in Chicago didn't stop him; without bothering to cash the unused part of his plane ticket, he climbed aboard a train for New York...
...take over the debts on the hotel. The new stockholders will pay Kirkeby $3,000,000 which "would take us many years to get through the present [renting] arrangement." Having paid only $187,500 on the debts, Kirkeby's company in effect will receive about 650% on its cash interest in the property...
Local traders are missing no opportunity to jump on the bandwagon and envelop themselves in the traditional Christmas baubles, in order to catch undergraduate trade before the December 19 rush decimates the cash-bearing population. To set the pace, the city of Cambridge has already decorated its lamp posts. Yesterday workers finished wrapping the poles with strands of laurel and aluminum, and hung the final pine wreath on top. The cost of this decoration is met by the city with the help of the Harvard Square Business Men's Association...
...Monday, November 22, two college undergraduates and the daughter of the president of Colby College were stopped and robbed of all their cash by armed bandits, who overtook them near the Harvard Observatory. Last Sunday, another Harvard student drove through a car holdup in Lancaster st., which was apparently not reported to the Cambridge police...
...Cash is the criterion of success in the United States, Clyde K. M. Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology, said yesterday, and he used Harvard students to prove his point...