Word: deposits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before leaving his temporary quarters, every man must deposit his key with the janitor in Stoughton, and must return any sheets, blankets, or towels that may have been issued to him. Room contracts must be signed at the Bursar's Office (Lehman Hall) before keys to new rooms may be obtained from the super-intendents of the dormitories to which the students are being assigned...
...alleged income-tax evasions of $5 million in the boom period of 1942-44. The Treasury suspected that Restaurateur Lustig had failed to report large, systematic with drawals of cash, $1,000 at a time, from his various tills. This cash, said the News, had been placed in safe-deposit boxes ($1,500,000 in one; $50,000 in another), "and conveniently forgotten in tax reports...
...applying the wonder insecticide, DDT. The Todd Shipyards had rigged up an insect-killing version of its Army & Navy smoke-screen generator. The contraption sprays a dry, odorless, stainless cloud of fine oil particles containing a 5% solution of DDT. The fog disappears in a few minutes, leaving a deposit of DDT crystals on everything it touches...
...President still seemed a little startled at the furor he caused on personal expeditions in the capital. Last week, when he hustled out to open his safety deposit box at a Washington bank, he virtually tied up noon-hour traffic in the street outside. But his informality, his habit of early rising had begun to seem natural. So did the folksy atmosphere which visitors imparted to White House anterooms. Newsmen now rated callers as OFs (Old Friends) and PRs (Payers of Respects...
...tiny town near Jackson he rented a building, scrawled the word "Bank" on the window, and built a cashier's cage out of chicken wire. In the cage Tigrett roosted anxiously for several days until the bank's first customer entered, opened an account with a deposit...