Word: deposits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Commercial uses are limited and prosaic-Welsbach gaslight mantles, carbon terminals for projectors, luminous watch dials. Since commercial production has never been reported in Canada, two possibilities are suggested: 1) the materials for Chalk River will be imported; or 2) under the wartime security blackout, a workable deposit of thorium has been discovered in Canada...
...charged Lustig and aides with keeping two sets of books to defraud the U.S., other devious ways of hiding profits. One was to siphon $2,000,000 from restaurant tills to a safe-deposit box of Lustig's. Another way: taking the tips of hat-check girls...
...Jack Benny keeps three soundmen hopping every time he enters the mythical safe-deposit vault beneath his house. The soundmen squeak doors, blow sirens, ring bells and toot horns to further the legend of Benny's penny-pinching. Studio audiences find it sidesplitting...
...third transfusion was to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. As its head, the President named another onetime Missourian-Maple T. Harl, 52, now a Denver banker. Both he and Martin succeed Leo T. Crowley, who was head of both institutions until he resigned to return to private business...
...months Washington had known that white-haired Leo Thomas Crowley, boss of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Foreign Economic Administration, would step out of the Government as soon as he considered his war duties done. Last week he stepped out, calm, neat and precise as ever-but hopping...