Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...declined to 1,983,000,000 bu. on Sept. 1 as a result of the Drought. This harvest would be the smallest in 29 years. Two months of rainlessness had withered 29% or 817,000,000 bu. of the corn crop, a cash loss of about $775,000,000. The 1930 crop appeared to be 24% less than that...
...newspapers were reporting, asked lightly: "Who's next?" Aug. 6 he ordered his chauffeur to be ready to drive back to Maine, but he did not use his automobile that day. Instead he packed a briefcase and four portfolios with documents from his office, drew almost his entire cash balance ($5,100) from two banks, told his confidential attendant he was "going up Westchester way for a swim." That evening he dined on Broadway with Lawyer William Klein-and then utterly disappeared...
...dark thought: Secretary Mellon apparently does not anticipate any such sudden upturn of U. S. business in the next six months as would reproduce the "tight money" situation and a marked increase in the rate of interest the Treasury must pay for cash...
Vendetta. Of merchandising wars, none is more famed than the Gimbels v. Macy's battle, in which the leader is Macy's with its policy of "underselling by 6% all competitors who do not sell for cash." Yet last week Gimbels parried with the flattest lie-direct yet seen in the war. "Forget it!" screeched the Gimbels advertisement, "Don't you believe for a minute that you can save a cent (to say nothing of six per cent) by buying for cash. . . . Gimbels prices are often a dollar less but rarely a penny more. . . . Gimbels will...
...agreed new color. That saves money in dye-buying. And each different product helps the rest to sell, since "ensembles" must be thoroughgoing. The U. S. gentlemen politely notify the Paris arbiters of their decision by sending over generous "samples," which the thrifty Parisians can easily sell for cash. In return, the Paris arbiters recommend the new color-of-the-season...