Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago's banking street. Here are the Reynolds brothers, George McClelland Reynolds and Arthur Reynolds, who last September (TIME, Sept. 17) merged their Continental National Bank & Trust Co. with Eugene M. Stevens' Illinois Merchants Trust Co. to make the second largest U. S. bank. The Reynolds brothers, however, are money makers rather than law makers, and Banker Stevens belongs to the comparatively younger generation. There is also Banker Melvin Alvah Traylor, onetime Texan, head of Chicago's First National Bank...
...talked to the Sheriff on long distance and asked $275 for hanging Mrs. Leboeuf and Dr. Dreher. The Sheriff thought that was too much money. But he finally agreed...
...took a train for Franklin, La., Friday night. The ticket cost $6 and I had a little money left. I got hungry on the train and had to buy sandwiches, which were entirely too thin to satisfy me. Some one met me in a car and took me to the Criminal Court room. I was told I could sleep there...
...Later Sheriff Pecot sent me enough money to pay my railroad fare both ways. But I've raised my price. If I am to hang Mrs. Leboeuf and Dr. Dreher next Saturday, or any other time, I must get $550 and expenses at Franklin...
...money earned from the sponges pays for the cost of sending out the boats. The profit is divided between sailors and divers. Divers get more because they risk their lives. There are octipi, sharks. But diving for sponges is lucrative. During 1927 the valuation of the sponge catch at Tarpon Springs was $886,216. The figures for 1928, not yet compiled, will show an increase...