Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Town" (West Colorado Springs) was founded in 1859 by brawling goldseekers. At the town's first church service the minister found only one worshiper because everyone else was out hanging a Mexican horse thief. Later, however, the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad decided to cash in on the area's magnificent scenery (Pike's Peak, Garden of the Gods, etc.) and climate (69° average in summer, 29° in winter), promoted a swank resort. So many young Englishmen came that Colorado Springs was called "Little Lunnon." Amidst the Rockies they played cricket and polo; one wrote...
...resources of their worshipers. The merchants of Port-au-Prince sell a good proportion of their expensive French perfume to black farmers who buy a bottle of Arpege or Chanel No. 5 for Maitresse Erzulie. One of Granny's converts paid a houngan $60 (about two years' cash income) for a can of something to bury in his garden to protect his crops and family...
...FEDERAL CASH BUDGET was in the black for the first time since the Korean war as the books closed this week for fiscal 1954. The cash budget consists of daily expenditures and the money actually taken in (including social-security payments). The administrative budget, which is the Government's planned income and outgo, is still $3.2 billion in the red. This deficit is expected to drop to $2.9 billion next year and the cash budget is again expected to balance...
Sand & Cotton. Pacific Far East was founded by a group of businessmen- who wanted to cash in on plentiful cargoes and scarce bottoms. To run the company, they hired American President Lines Vice President Thomas E. Cuffe (rhymes with rough), 55, a Kansas-born Californian who learned the ropes of the shipping business with the old Dollar Line...
...army commissions. When her c. in c. cashiers her for conduct unbecoming a mistress, she avenges herself by causing one of the juiciest scandals ever aired in the House of Commons. Her noble victim manages at least to stop her from writing her memoirs about him by making a cash & carry settlement. But Mary Anne, casting a Cassandra-like glance into the future, hopefully murmurs: "The promise [binds] only myself, and not my heirs...