Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last, desperate days of his government, President Jacobo Arbenz summoned Finance Minister Raúl Sierra Franco to the presidential offices and told him: "I must have 2,000,000 quetzales* right away; a friendly government has agreed to sell us fighter planes for cash." Sierra Franco, a dutiful and upright functionary, replied that there was probably only a million in cash available, but offered to get that...
...minute show steers clear of the heap-o'-livin' or Just Plain Bilge routine and stays easygoing and amusing. Item: Sweeney's young grandson, played by Glenn Walken, asks for a candy bar, then borrows a dime from Sweeney and rings it up on the cash register; this, says Sweeney, "keeps him honest...
...finance both deals, Burlington had some $50 million in cash and Government bonds in its till. By the two purchases, Burlington's sales (including those of the controlled companies) will be well above $400 million a year, thus putting it ahead of J. P. Stevens and making it the biggest textile manufacturer in the country. Burlington will, for the present, operate both Pacific and Goodall-Sanford under their own names...
Between Wars. The first Necchi sewing machine was made in 1919 by Vittorio Necchi, son of a Pavia foundry owner, who decided that a native product could cash in on the Italian sewing-machine market, then divided among Singer and some 30 German companies...
...Central Intelligence Agency, the Senator told the press a year ago that a Communist Party member had access to CIA secrets, and commented darkly: "An extremely bad situation." Said Woltman: "Evidently it wasn't bad enough for Mr. McCarthy to do anything about it, but he did cash in on headlines." < At Fort Monmouth, McCarthy held "press briefings" to give his own version of the secret testimony about "espionage" at closed, one-man hearings. But "when the time came to make good on the charges," said Woltman, "the Senator ducked out." McCarthy also took credit for the suspension...