Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Self-Portrait. In Great Bend, Kans., Donley Hurd published a notice in the daily Tribune: "You are hereby notified that you shall cash no checks supposed to be signed by me because I never have any money in the bank and never give any checks unless I'm too drunk to know what I'm doing...
...pasture land, a spread that would normally carry from 1,000 to 1,100 sheep and from 125 to 150 cattle. When the drought took hold in earnest back in 1950, Wilhelm played it smarter than some of his neighbors, sold off his herds to prevent overgrazing, used the cash to buy feed for the animals he kept. Today it costs him a money-losing $12 a year to feed each cow, $2 to feed each sheep...
...bright reports. National Biscuit earned $4,678,974, up 17.3% above last year, and Sunshine Biscuits estimated a "quite substantial" gain in the year's first two months. Philip Morris estimated a 40% profit rise over 1955's first-quarter $1,849,992, and Kroger's cash registers rang up $3,908,872, for 41% more profit than last year. United Airlines revenues rose 11% over the $50,381,000 of a year ago, and President W. A. Patterson prophesied that revenues would rise 50% in the next five years. Chemicals reacted unevenly. While preliminary reports from...
...Silver Bay and Babbitt, two five-year-old taconite mining communities built by Reserve Mining Co. in remote northeastern Minnesota, company-built homes are sold to employees on longterm, no-cash-down mortgages held by the company. Says Reserve President W. M. Kelley: "Good communities are essential to our operation. If we are to compete successfully, we must continue to attract skilled, high-type men who want to own their own homes and run their own communities...
...just as big as ever, and though no better for training, it does not seem to be any worse for the careless wear he gives it. Lanza still can rattle a teacup at 20 paces with his high C, and with this picture he seems sure to rattle the cash registers all across the land...