Word: deposite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London exhibition. Englishmen paid one shilling & sixpence (36c) to look at the models. They ordered 64,000 cars. In Manhattan a rascal took advantage of the local gullibility. He passed through the showroom throngs with an "order book" in his hand, promising delivery in three weeks upon a deposit of $25. When detectives approached him he ran away with many a $25 stuffed in his coat pockets. The week marked a milestone for public excitement...
...respectively confidential secretaries to Publisher Edward B. McLean of the Washington Post and "Villain" Burns, read as follows: "Cravingly in Dxewonx resurge lodgement ailment fastidious tuck skewered suckled scrage emerse vithouse punctators gob. . . ." This was translated: "According to Lambert's instructions the papers have been put in the safe deposit box belonging to you & Frazer in the Commercial Bank...
...Some deposits which are apparently rich and deep prove to be only a thin layer of profitable ore over worthless rock. Electrical instruments are being devised to register not only the presence of metals, but the extent of the ore pocket, and so prevent wasted efforts. Metals have a decided influence upon delicate electrical mechanism, and the various effects of each metal give a key to the nature of the concealed deposit...
...stretching of old exchange rules the governing committee has for some time permitted dealing in foreign deposit certificates of Royal Dutch Oil, Rand Mines, De Beers Mines and Shell Trading & Transport...
...York Curb Market (less finicky than the New York Stock Exchange), Dresdener Bank of Berlin and Selfridge Provincial Shares, Ltd., represented by deposit certificates, have long been sold. Twenty other titles are dealt in on the Curb, but are unlisted...