Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the city council met to choose a new mayor from among its own members. There was little doubt that the job would go to a Democrat named Albert D. Cash. Cincinnati had not had a Democratic mayor for 35 years, but Bob Taft's powerful Republican machine had slipped a cog in November. Of nine council seats, it had won only four. The rest had been won by a coalition of Democrats and maverick Republicans, flying the banner of Cincinnati's famed reform organization, the Charter Committee. Charlie Taft had led the Charterites...
...Charlie Taft who placed Democrat Cash's name in nomination. A few minutes later, Republican Councilman Gordon Scherer made the seemingly futile gesture of nominating incumbent Mayor Carl W. Rich. That done, he turned on Charlie Taft and shouted...
...Democrat Cash was elected...
...Plan meant that the export boom was not going to collapse; foreign nations were going to get the cash to keep the boom going. The U.S. hoped that with the European Recovery Program other nations would get on their feet again, and by their own production close the gap in foreign trade. Result: those in the U.S. who had patiently held off their buying, waiting for the drop in exports to ease the pressure on prices, had to jump back into the market...
...Money. So the U.S. paid for its first try at bailing out the world with higher prices all around. Everyone, as expected, put the blame on everyone else. Foreign nations blamed the U.S. for the high prices, which had sucked away their cash, without conceding that their buying had helped boost the prices. Corporations took a big cut out of the income pie; net corporate profits after taxes (including the "paper" profits on inventories) of $17.4 billion were up 39% over net profits in 1946. (But corporations still had a smaller share of the total income than...