Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rained frogs, thousands of little green frogs, in Massachusetts-or so said J. P. Valliere of New Bedford, who said he saw them. A Spokane butcher displayed a sign: "Choice Meats: The Management Will Accept Cash, First Mortgages, Bonds and Good Jewelry." Walter W. Brown of Onawa, Iowa lopped off five toes in his lawn mower, found four, had a doctor sew them on again. Lifeguards at Chicago's Oak Street Beach put on shocking-pink trunks to distinguish them from ordinary bathers...
...coal mine-the only one operating in all Malaya. Shooting up a school bus and murdering a foreman and four workers, 37 of the bandits, including a teen-age girl, swept down on the railway station and held up an incoming train. The rebel leader emptied the railroad cash box, snapped: "We only want European property. We are going to kill every white man in Malaya." As the rebels left, the girl guerrilla took the station first-aid hamper with...
...Party. By treaty, uniformed U.S. or Mexican soldiers may enter the others' country on legitimate errands, provided they go unarmed. In this case, although it was contrary to the letter of the law, there was some excuse for bearing arms: the lost plane carried 200,000 pesos in cash. (Actually, the cash had been recovered by Mexican authorities before the U.S. soldiers reached the scene...
...Less Cash. In the first quarter of 1948, according to SEC, privately held liquid assets (cash and bank accounts) fell off $4 billion, the first such decline since 1942. Meanwhile there was a $2.5 billion increase in securities holdings...
...rock bits used in drillings all over the world. The present Hughes enterprises include Hughes Aircraft at Culver City, Calif.; Hughes Productions (movies); a controlling interest in Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., and a brewery, the largest in Texas. There is an exceedingly large but unknown amount of cash out of which Howard Hughes paid for his RKO stock. The net income of Hughes Tool, the parent company, is estimated at $8-10,000,000 a year, but since Howard Hughes owns 100% of Hughes Tool he does not have to publish balance sheets...