Word: catchup
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrast common stockholders (the management sold its employes 64% of its own stock) got 719,926 snares of new common and a promise of a $1 "catchup" dividend, if earned. Their total original investment was about...
...Newark. N. J., as Euro-American Corp., obtained credit with impressive but wholly fraudulent financial statements, proceeded to buy $100,000 worth of groceries. When the creditors finally went around to see why their bills were not paid, the only tangible asset they could find was a case of catchup. The rest of the goods had long since been sold, the proceeds pocketed by the Brothers Ziongas. Later it was learned that the Ziongas ring had similarly and simultaneously diverted another $75,000 worth of groceries through a dummy concern in Trenton...
When a West Pointer speaks of "growley" he is referring either to tomato catchup or to a blush...