Word: pocketbook
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Voice: "You suggest, Mr. Kennedy. I never look into a man's pocketbook...
...seems, some Americans may be stuffing bills into mattresses or up the chimney. Unlikely is it too that $800,000,000 is being used in place of checks. That would mean that on the average every adult man or woman is carrying around $9 more in his pocketbook than a year ago. Unlikely is it also that so much money can have gone abroad. Travelers in these days probably carry more cash than formerly, but travelers are fewer. Considerable amounts of money may have been sent abroad by mail. U. S. currency exported by banks (net) amounted...
...week he and Mrs. Pilchard sat listening to the radio. Someone knocked on the door. Mr. Pilchard shuffled over, opened it. From the darkness outside, a shotgun blasted into his face, killed him almost instantly. Three Negroes rushed in, demanded Annie Pilchard's money. She gave them her pocketbook, turned and ran upstairs. With cool brutality, one of the Negroes shot her in the back...
...Bolton has gone about her political career as quietly as she would order a dinner for eight. Three years ago, Congressman George H. Bender blasted away at "royalists of the Republican Party," and "pocketbook domination of its councils." Replied Mrs. Bolton: "None of us has any rights except those we earn." To Boss Bender, Mrs. Bolton is now an "ideal candidate...
...flying business a successful forced landing is one you can walk away from. In 1932 big Detroit Aircraft Corp. made a landing that was distinctly not successful. No investor aboard walked away with his pocketbook intact. One of Detroit Aircraft's subsidiaries was Lockheed Aircraft, absorbed in 1929. Although its sleek Vegas and Orions were the fastest commercial jobs in the air, Lockheed had to go into receivership. Grass grew around its two-acre plant at Burbank, Calif., and the factory had only one employe-a watchman who had started working for Brothers Alan and Malcolm Loughead (later changed...