Word: cashing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Manhattan's Bowery Comeback Association, dedicated to turning bums into good citizens, tried its hand at helping vagrant women by offering them 1) a free beauty treatment, 2) a new wardrobe, 3) room rent for four weeks and 4) $60 in cash. There were no takers...
First prize in the competition is a cash award of $100. Runner-ups get one prize of $25 in books and three prizes of $10 in books in order of finish...
...York survived the great danger. When a yellow fever epidemic struck the city in 1799, it moved from its Wall Street offices to temporary quarters in the open country (now Greenwich Village), then back to Wall Street. During the depression of 1907, a new customer rushed in with cash withdrawn from other banks and nervously asked if his money would be safe. The cashier merely nodded towards the plaque of Hamilton on the wall. "I judge you've been through several panics," said the customer-and deposited more than $1,000,000. The trust was well placed; the bank...
...visited the headwaters of every Argentine river, studied every public-works project, met every provincial governor. He had learned what labor costs, how the bureaucracy works, where industry might expand. Now, in a private capacity, he meant to go back, bid for the big-money jobs and cash in on U.S. know...
...history." But a wheat agreement had been signed by 22 nations in 1933, and had proved unworkable. Besides, this one was not yet a contract. Before it becomes one, it must be approved by Congress and the other governments concerned. And as long as wheat remains high (current cash price: around $2.50 a bushel), the U.S. farm bloc will bitterly fight any attempt to put it under a $2 ceiling...