Word: depositing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That a veteran would cash in his bond only to pad his safe deposit account was regarded as highly doubtful by Richard M. Goodwin, assistant professor of Economics. He considered that where the payoff money came from was the determining factor in estimating a possible inflationary effect...
...water evaporates through the leaves, the minerals it carried remain in the plant's tissues, eventually falling to the ground and becoming part of the humus on the surface. Geophysicists analyze this "biologically enriched" layer and the leaves of growing plants. Finnish geochemists found a rich copper-nickel deposit by examining the ashes of birch leaves...
...despair, Monge turned to historical records, where he found a rich deposit of high-altitude lore. The Incas, who ruled Peru before the Spanish Conquest, were altitude-wise. When they colonized newly conquered territory, they always sent immigrants accustomed to its altitude. When they warred against coastal peoples, they maintained two highland armies. Each campaigned in the lowlands for only two months, was relieved, and returned to the high sierra to breathe its thin air and recuperate...
...down payment on the rent, he posted a $150,000 check with WAA. WAA phoned the bank, found that Tucker had about $3,000 on deposit. When Tucker pleaded for more time to raise the rent money, WAA obligingly returned his check and gave him an extension to March 1. When Tucker again failed to fulfill the contract, WAA gave him an extension to July 1. However, it insisted that he have at least $15 million on hand then...
Andy, by the Government's evidence, seemed to be adept at turning a penny occasionally out of his favors to friends. The Government produced records of two $1,000 checks May had pocketed, a $2,500 deposit in his account by Murray Garsson, an old $5,000 note Murray had obligingly paid off at the bank. But the biggest payoff was an enterprise known as the Cumberland Lumber Co., conveniently located in Andy's home town of Prestonsburg, Ky. The owners were Murray and Henry Garsson; their agent was Andy...