Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said Eccles, was simple. There was just too much money in circulation. It had been pumped out by the Government's wartime borrowing (and such easy postwar credit as G.I. loans for houses at inflated prices). Between 1940 and 1946, the hard cash in the nation's pocket had increased from $40 to $106 billion. In the same period, production had leveled off at only 186% of the 1935-39 average. The result, when controls came off, was a tremendous new demand which sent prices soaring...
...warfare on the Jews: "I cannot say where and when I will place my troops. I can only say we will fight and are preparing for victory." Azzam Pasha had just returned from a flying visit to Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud. In Azzam Pasha's pocket, said aides, was Ibn Saud's promise to use most of his U.S. oil royalties (about $20,000,000 a year) to modernize his Bedouin army and to arm Palestinian Arabs for the war on Zionism...
Since Rank and associates already had working control of Odeon, the deal was like shifting money from one pocket to another. But two potent critics of Rank, Lord Beaverbrook and Brendan Bracken saw a chance to pry out some facts about what goes on inside Rank's tightly run, closely held film empire. Bracken's Financial Times cried that Odeon stockholders were getting a "pig in a poke...
...Gorman, Eastern Intercollegiate 440 yd. Champion, this half-mile grind will provide close competition for the audience even if the opposition is swimming a dophlogisticated duck. Neither man is a kind of performer who would be satisfied with three points even if he know five were in the team pocket already...
...Student Council dug deep into its pocket last night, distributing more than $3,388 at the regular weekly meeting, as other Council action paid off when the Corporation granted a Soldiers Field home for students' cars...