Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enormous growth of the U.S. population has meant vast new markets in everything from baby carriages to washing machines and wrist watches. Will every retailer cash in on the bonanza? Not at all. The reason is that since 1940, almost half of the 28 million national population increase has taken place in residential suburban areas, anywhere from ten to 40 miles away from traditional big-city shopping centers. Thus, to win the new customers' dollars, merchants will have to follow the flight to the suburbs...
...worth $480 million) in just seven years. Papa, puttering around in the basement, spent $150 million on power tools in 1953, and a grand total of nearly $3 billion for all his home carpentry work. Many big department stores are already taking advantage of suburbia's cash and energy, stock hundreds of items in suburban branches that would look out of place in their city stores...
...found it easy to cash in on this vast and uncritical acceptance. NBC, which he now hates as the captive Grecian maiden hated the mustachioed Turk, refuses to pay more than a niggling $28,000 a program, although the network extracts a total of $3,000,000 annually from the show's sponsors (biggest contributor: Chesterfield). A few months ago, however, Webb finally found a way out of this financial dilemma; to the Music Corp. of America last year he sold the rights to 100 completed Dragnets and to 95 more which will be filmed in the future...
...race horses. Vasen was just as impressive up North. His confident talk was enough to persuade hundreds of people to buy interests in the well and leases on the surrounding land at $300 an acre. An 80-year-old Cedarburg, Wis. nailmaker plunked down $200,000 in hard cash; a Chicago hoodlum anted...
Eyes Front. In Hamilton, Ont., while 18 policemen and eight bank guards moved $4,000,000 in cash and securities into a new bank, thieves held up a finance company next door and escaped with...