Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against Stratton this fall. The Chicago Sun-Times, sniffing for new leads in the Hodge case, fingered the county treasurer's chief deputy, John E. Sullivan, for suspicious connections with two banks through which Hodge had done his double-dealing. Paschen fired the man. Then the news paper revealed the existence of a Herbert C. Pashen Employees Association "welfare fund" in the treasurer's office-made up by contributions from banks where county money was on deposit. Some of the money, the paper charged, had been used to further Paschen's political career...
...first-magnitude stars include Walter Pidgeon, Charles Laughton, Burgess Meredith, Barbara Bel Geddes, Michael Redgrave, Maurice Evans, Claire Bloom, Fredric March, Shelley Winters. Only the season will tell whether the plays and players look as good on the boards as they promise on paper. But with the curtain about to rise on the 1956-57 season, the only thing Broadway seemed to lack was enough theaters to go around for all the shows that producers want...
Tobacco Money. A realist who knows his history, Martin is well aware that he could overnight become the scapegoat of slump. In the crisis-stained chronicles of U.S. finance, bankers have been crucified on crosses of gold, silver, paper and every other substance used to back currency. From early colonial days, when they had to ship scarce gold and silver abroad to pay for imports, Americans chronically lacked sufficient backing for stable money. Virginia in the 17th century used tobacco for money (top-grade weed was worth 3$. a lb.), but was plunged into inflation by citizens' cash crops...
...flourishing sideline in paper caps has grown out of Ingram's obsession for cleanliness. When he borrowed $700 to build the first turreted White Castle hamburger stand at Wichita, Kans. in the '20s. he decided to give the customer 5? hamburger, a shiny counter and immaculate countermen. He got his shiny counters, but his hound's-tooth countermen were hard to come by. After a couple of trips to the laundry, their 35? white linen caps looked like old socks-shrunken, grey and frayed. Said Ingram: Why not paper caps...
...years, Ingram developed a machine that gobbled up rolls of paper and spewed out 1,000 paper overseas caps an hour. In ten days, the machine made a year's supply of hats for every White Castle in the U.S. With plenty of caps and too few White Castle heads, Ingram set up a cap division (Paperlynen) in 1932, and sent out salesmen to coffee companies, butchers, bakeries, ice-cream vendors, insurance firms, food and drink packers...