Word: payments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reduced to simplest terms such payments take place in three steps: 1) A German sugar-seller contracts with a French buyer for so many thousand pounds at the current price and the sugar is shipped; 2) The seller collects his money in marks from the German Treasury, and the Reparations Commission then credits Germany with the amount of the payment, just as though it had been made to the Commission in gold; 3) Meanwhile the French dealer who received the sugar sells it and makes payment to the French-Government in francs, whereupon the Reparations-Commission certifies that France...
Students who have not yet paid their January term bills are reminded that yesterday was the last day for such payments and that payment should be made at once...
...Flight in the face of maternity?that divine maternity that, together with some brief physical suffering, gives the loftiest and deepest joys of life?is as culpable as the desertion of soldiers in the face of the enemy, as the attempt of the taxpayer to escape the payment of taxes...
...Hertz's final act was to give 7,000 shares of Yellow Cab stock to 60 employes who had been with him since the start, and to sell them 7,000 additional shares on an easy deferred payment plan...
Untalkative, small, muscular, shrewd, Zukor got along in the fur business. He and his partner, Morris Kohn, understood fur tradition?when a dealer tried to cheat them, one held him by the throat while the other ran to the bank to cash his check before he could stop payment. In 1897, surrounded by a tribal