Word: lieu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...creditor powers accept, in lieu of Reparations, bonds to be issued by Germany with a face value of four billion marks...
...cabled I. T. & T. that Ericsson's cash account had been misrepresented, cheap foreign bonds being carried in the cash account at par value. In Manhattan Ivar Kreuger tried to pass this off. It was a mistake in translation he insisted. Oh yes, the bonds had been placed in lieu of cash but that was just a temporary loan Ericsson Telephone had made to Kreuger & Toll?he would soon put the cash back and take the bonds in return. And did not Sosthenes Behn see that Ivar Kreuger himself had guaranteed the Ericsson accounts? There was nothing to worry about...
...lieu of the theatre admissions tax, Showman Brady had a variety of proposals: a 1? levy on all newspapers, a 5? excise on magazines weighing over a pound, radio and cruise-to-nowhere taxes. "Every American, so it is said, is a born gambler," he continued, leading up dramatically to his prime suggestion. "Buying and selling stock on the market is gambling pure and simple. The only difference between that and outright gambling is that . . . you don't see the cards, you don't see the wheel go round, you don't see the dice roll...
...your issue of Oct. 26, you report the ruling by Secretary Mellon-printed nowhere else that I saw-by which the debentures of the National Credit Corp. are made acceptable collateral, in lieu of Government bonds and bank acceptances, for the deposit of U. S. Government funds...
...West than in the East, about a dozen metropolitan dailies on the Pacific Coast are that old, or older. The Express was alive in Los Angeles for ten years before the Times came along. In San Francisco, in 1880, Senator George Hearst accepted the nearly worthless Examiner in lieu of payment of an old debt, negligently kept it for seven years until his son William, home from Harvard by expulsion, astounded him by asking to have the paper for his own. The Chronicle's stormy career under the brothers Charles and Michael De Young was already in its second...