Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thrashing, an idea, full-armed but of unfettered simplicity, sprang from Dorothy's head. Last week, she called Newsday, a Hempstead, L.I. tabloid,* and said she wanted to place an ad. She would marry any man who would support her and the children and give her $10,000 cash, right away. Newsday refused the ad, but ran the story. All at once, Dorothy was famous-well, talked about. Reporters came to interview her, and photographers to take her picture. She submitted with garrulous assurance, was photographed from many angles and in negligee. At a table...
Equitable could take over the airline if it wanted to. T.W.A. could get no more help from outside sources; Principal Stockholder Howard Hughes did not intend to put in any more cash. Warned Pierson: only a quick RFC loan of $10,000,000 could save the line...
...William T. Greene, moderator of St. Pat's choir: "You may be interested in knowing that at no time in the future will the Mass of Roy Harris be performed in St. Patrick's." Added Father Greene: the implication that the Mass was written for cash was "not only untrue, but most distasteful...
...seemed to be that investors, who had been shooed away from buying by talk of recession, had finally realized that many a stock was vastly underpriced, and that profits had a good chance to stay high for some time to come. (The tax cut had also released some investment cash...
...biggest cash deal in Hollywood history was closed last week exactly as prescribed by the script. Howard Hughes gave an $8,825,690 check to Atlas Corp.'s Floyd Odium for its 929,020 shares of stock (24%)-and control-of Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. (TIME, May 10). (Atlas still kept an interest in RKO by its ownership of warrants to buy some 300,000 shares of stock.) Despite ample warnings of the change, RKO's staff got so jittery over their new boss that RKO President Nathaniel Peter Rathvon had to pour out soothing syrup: "Mr. Hughes...