Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sackful of Bills. To insistent depositors, Bob sometimes handed back their cash from a sackful of $20 bills in his office. Often, he bet a restless customer $100 to $1 that he would deliver on a certain date, temporarily appeased the depositor by paying off the bet on due day. How did Bob hope to keep his bubble from bursting? Best guess was that he hoped to use his huge amount of cash to turn some super deal in land or oil speculation, pay off everybody, including...
Radcliffe's Class of '52 will take the first step toward electing freshman class officers today when they start circulating nominating petitions in Aggasiz House and the dormitories, Petitions carrying 20 signatures are due at Agassiz at noon, Monday, October...
...disintegration of the Ashida cabinet left Japan in a political vacuum, just when a special Diet session was due to discuss a new minimum wage level for government employees (present level: about $14 a month). More serious was the resulting complete disillusionment with his government displayed by the Japanese man in the street. The U.S. had given Japan a new constitution, new slogans, new faces. It had not changed the real constitution of Japan-the skein of bribery which had held the country before the war and which continued to exist behind MacArthur's upright back...
...drop was partly due to seasonal shipments of cattle to market, though they were running lower than at the same time last year. When prices started down, some farmers stopped shipping, hoping that a shorter supply would raise prices. Nevertheless, except for hogs, prices stayed down. The Department of Agriculture, which mortally hates and fears a fall in farm income, predicted that the lower prices would not last. Many another expert thought differently. Mark W. Pickell, executive secretary of the Corn Belt Livestock Feeders Association, said that prices would be "lower in November and December," even lower next year. Whoever...
That Cadet line had a uasty habit of appearing in Harvard's backfield about the same time as the pass from center; this was only partly due to their own ability. The officiating was the worst in years...