Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three years. Farmers choosing to join the acreage reserve would take specific acres temporarily out of production, receiving compensation based on a percentage of the normal yield. Compensation would be paid, Benson testified, in a novel way: the farmers would get certificates redeemable by the Commodity Credit Corp. in cash or in surplus commodities. Benson explained: "We would use the surplus to use up the surplus." Farmers who joined the conservation reserve would get compensation for taking acres out of production for five to ten years and for planting grass or trees; these farmers would have to guarantee...
...Keefe, 47, and he had been talking almost continuously for three days. Outside, on the streets of Boston and all over the U.S., newspapers repeated Specs' story in huge headlines and minute detail; after six years, the $2,775,395 Brink's Inc. robbery, the largest cash haul in U.S. history, was solved...
Using their specially made keys, the seven robbers made their way through five doors to the second-floor vault, where five Brink's men were busy counting the day's cash. Confronted with seven short-nosed pistols, the Brink's men surrendered without a fight. After tying and gagging them, the gang methodically began to stuff $1,218,211.29 in cash and $1,557,183.83 in checks, money orders and securities into burlap sacks they carried with them. While they worked, a buzzer went off. O'Keefe removed the adhesive-tape gag from Cashier Thomas...
DISCOUNT HOUSES, now grossing some $7 billion annually, are taking on the trappings as well as the sales of big business. To raise cash for more expansion, New York's fast-growing E. J. Korvette Inc. (eight stores in the metropolitan area, two others abuilding or planned) floated its first public stock issue with 220,000 shares (par value, $1; asking price, $10) of common stock, sold it out to eager investors as soon as the news hit Wall Street...
...bought by General Tire & Rubber Co.'s Teleradio subsidiary for its film backlog (TIME, Aug. 1), will swing back into full operation as a major moviemaker. After virtually shutting down under Industrialist Howard Hughes, RKO will start off with a $22.5 million budget for eleven films (among them: Cash McCall, A Farewell to Arms, The Syndicate) in the first six months of 1956 alone...