Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state invested little cash in the Turnpike Commission. When the turnpike bonds went on the market in 1952, private investors, looking toward revenues from tolls, bought up the entire $326 million in one day. Before the market closed that day, the commission's $1,000 tax-exempt 3¼% bonds commanded a $25 premium. But the project was still plagued by delays, and so many obstructive lawsuits that one attorney wryly suggested paving the roadway with law! books and naming it Blackstone Boulevard. No concrete was poured at all for the first four years. Then in late...
...This the H.A.A. could not give men, because, said Mr. Lunden, "The money's in the bank now. It's out of my hands. There's nothing I can do." Having paid by check, I could do something--I stopped payment. But those students who paid by cash are evidently out of luck. Robert M. Neer...
Abramson also stated, however, that between $2000 and $3000 is outstanding on pledges collected in lieu of cash donations. The Council will send out letters of appeal this week to all those who have not made good their pledges, although Abramson said that some of the notes were for sums over $50 and were probably uncollectable...
...Ladder. Next on Silberstein's list in 1953 was Industrial Brownhoist Corp., a Michigan industrial-machinery maker which had more than $1,000,000 in cash reserves. The following year, Silberstein used Penn-Texas capital to buy up 51% of the stock in Connecticut's Niles-Bement-Pond, a machine-tool mak er with plenty of cash in the till. After a bitter proxy fight, Silberstein won control, made the company a Penn-Texas subsidiary. Last week he changed the name of the company to Pratt & Whit ney Co., the name of a company it had once absorbed...
...begins to heave during his sermons, and Humphrey himself gets unseasonably hot under the ecclesiastical collar. However, by the time the audience has experienced the illicit delights of what amounts to a free trial package of sacrilege, the script "does a gopher," as Hollywood writers say. It runs for cash cover...