Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some budgets were stretching thin. Life insurance companies reported a 25% increase since last year in the surrender of policies for cash. The nation was finding it hard to keep up with its prosperity...
...against a rough 30-40% who see the average Hollywood movie hit). Some who did see Henry must have gone to see it out of culture-snobbery, or because they were led by the ears. The heartening fact is that the picture better than paid for itself in cold cash, not to mention prestige, in its U.S. run. And for years to come, Henry V and Hamlet will refresh and enchant every moviegoer who has it in him to love great dramatic poetry, beautifully spoken and acted...
After his father retired, Stan got Inter-Island to give planes a try. He started in November 1929 with two eight-passenger Sikorsky Amphibions. In 1941 Hawaiian bought three Douglas DC-3s, just in time to cash in on war traffic. All Inter-Island's passenger boats were put into troop service, so civilians had to use Hawaiian Airlines to get from island to island. Hawaiian also flew food from outlying ranches into Honolulu, and when Hilo's main laundry closed down (TIME, May 12, 1947), provided two-day service from a laundry on the island of Maui...
...kiss him in the winner's cage: "There's a lady I want to kiss first ... I hope you'll understand. We're going to be married in June." The prizes he had helped win were ideal for setting up housekeeping-$42,300 in cash, a bicycle, a Chevrolet convertible, a diamond ring...
...such notions. The giddy '20s were gone forever. Now there are 75% margins; a speculator has to put up more than three times as much money to buy the same amount of stock as he did in '29. Moreover, greatly increased taxes have slashed the amount of cash available for speculation; and, in addition, the 25% capital gains tax cuts deeply into any profits...