Word: depositing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...between her wedding to Scott and her disappearance, Evelyn Throsby Scott cashed some $223,000 worth of securities, in addition to drawing about $180,000 in income from her estate. When she disappeared, there was a lot of money lying around in a dozen-odd bank accounts and safe-deposit boxes. According to subsequent testimony, Scott, using forged signatures, helped himself liberally to the money, spent a bundle of $100 bills on travel, Las Vegas gambling and gifts for a shapely divorcee...
...CRISIS in Philippines will pinch Americans doing business there. To stop drain on dollar reserves, now at alltime low of $145 million, Philippine government has told U.S. subsidiaries that they may not send their dollar profits back home. And to check big imports, Manila now demands that local businessmen deposit 50% to 200% of value of their imports in advance...
...Hands ransacked the headquarters at No. 7 Persian Street; they searched Shoghi Effendi's safe-deposit box without success. All week long they met in secret session, were tight-lipped about rumors of stormy rivalry between two candidates for Guardian-one of them said to be an American. At last they announced the solution: there would be no new Guardian at all, but a nine-man council of Hands at Haifa, titled "Hands of the Cause of God on Holy Land." The new body will have no power to interpret scripture...
...courtyard; it duly disappeared and was replaced by a receipt signed by Gabriel, Michael and Raphael. Barti persuaded Barzilai to burn the receipt. It would be returned on Judgment Day, he said. And so it went for four years-another $1,000 for his royal robes, a deposit of $2,500 on a gift of $5,000 "for the Lord himself," still more for a parcel containing King Solomon's throne from Elijah's cave on Mt. Carmel. Barzilai could not resist taking a peek and was chagrined to find nothing but stones. Naturally, said Barti, the angels...
Tough Medicine. To tighten money, Finance Minister Ichimada asked Japan's central bank to 1) hike its rediscount rate from 7.3% to 8.4%, 2) tighten up reserves of commercial banks to make loans harder to get, and 3) raise deposit requirements on import licenses from 5% to 35% of the shipment's total value, thus immediately tying up an estimated $40 million worth of importers' funds. As a result, imports dropped an average $25 million monthly, were actually slightly behind currency-earning exports for the month of October. Moreover, inflation at home lost some of its steam...