Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year banks began to balk. When they did, Peter suddenly produced "bills of exchange'' (drafts) apparently guaranteed, by such sterling-solid men as Docker and Mann. When one bank refused to give him further loans, he would "cash" another bill of exchange with another bank and repay the loan at the first. Last spring his respectable backers had enough. They resigned from the boards, refused him further financing. In June, his companies crashing around him, Peter abruptly put himself into a private sanatorium where no visitors were allowed. But one visitor got through anyway: Chief Detective Superintendent...
...thing who claimed that she was "more than a secretary" to Wood in his $100,000 Miami home. After he learned that she was mar ried and threw her out of the mansion, she cried that it was hers as a gift, along with $25,000 in bonds and cash. Wood kept the house; she kept the negotiables. Last week spry old Wood had employee trouble again, this time with his most recent secretary, an ex-model named Lucille Stiglich, 23. She charged that she paid a surprise visit to his Biscayne Bay castle, found him there with...
MINUTE MAID CORP., which started the frozen-orange-juice boom in 1945 (1953 sales: $36.4 million), has just closed a $40 million deal to buy its biggest competitor, the Snow Crop division of Clinton Foods Inc. Minute Maid will pay Clinton $22.5 million in cash and $17.3 million in Minute Maid bonds for six processing plants and 7,500 acres of citrus groves, will get a full line of frozen fruits, vegetables, fish and poultry, besides becoming by far the biggest orange juice producer in the field...
...variety of special accounting problems and economic mysteries which a certified public accountant may be called upon to solve is almost without limit. The discovery of fraud or the misappropriation of cash or merchandise is not, as is sometimes assumed, one of the prime objectives of an accountant's peculiar talents; but this sort of work is a frequently and important service to his clients...
...Independent movie-theater owners who seldom permit their eyes to wander from the cash register to the screen, were polled by the Independent Film Journal on their favorite movie and stars of the 1953-54 season. Top-money movie: From Here to Eternity (Columbia). No. 1 actor: John Wayne. No. 1 actress: Marilyn Monroe...