Word: cash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appointed dealers. They "buy" a table for 75 cents a week, split the take with the prison, which uses its share for the recreation fund and for the purchase of eyeglasses for needy inmates. Players draw "brass" (scrip) from their personal accounts (maximum $20 a week), never handle real cash, since an accumulation of "street money" might give a prisoner big ideas about escaping. Gambling hours in the small, dim, rock-walled "casino" are carefully regulated...
...Cash. In mid-September, Jasper & Co. ran out of cash. Shareholders who had accepted the Jasper bids were not being paid off. Within three days the market value of Jasper's empire fell from $48 million to $33.5 million, and Jasper sadly announced that Grunwald had fled to Israel. Building Society stockholders were offered only one shilling (16?) payment on their shares a month...
...Horn of Plenty. In the midst of Britain's increasing credit squeeze, Jasper's supply of money seemed endless. It turned out that recently most of the cash came from the State Building Society, a publicly owned savings-and-loan association supported by small depositors and designed to help people buy their own homes. Its motto: The Horn of Plenty. The horn was easily tapped by Jasper & Co. through Grunwald, who was also a lawyer representing State Building; he arranged for the Society to lend to Jasper on mortgages. All told, it lent Jasper $21.2 million...
...debt to the Athens bank. After another hitch in the oilfields, Richardson returned to Athens a year later in a brand new Cadillac, "swung around the square so's all the bench warmers would see me good," and then went to the bank and paid back the cash. Then he drove out of town again...
...were founded and before universities handed out lectureships to writers, most poetic achievement involved two persons, the poet and the patron. But Shelley and Byron both pulled a switch on the historic arrangement. In their circle of literary liberals, they had all the talent and they had all the cash. Percy Bysshe Shelley was heir to ?6,000 a year and thus a natural target for any advanced thinker down on his luck-including Editor-Author Leigh Hunt and Mary's father; William Godwin's outraged rebel's respectability never stopped him from sponging on Shelley...