Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...them for soundness. Head of the council was one of the U. S.'s most famed industrial scientists, who has been known to have some queer ideas himself-horse-faced, talkative Charles Kettering, General Manager of Research Laboratories of General Motors Corp., inventor of the self-starter, electric cash register, etc. Around the table were nine others: Chrysler's crack Engineer Fred M. Zeder, Du Font's Research Director Fin Sparre, General Electric's Research Laboratory Director William David Coolidge, Dean Frederick M. Feiker of George Washington University School of Engineering, Manhattan Patent Lawyer (and Theatre...
What can be done by voluntary cooperation, well oiled with cash, was demonstrated last week. RFC announced a loan of $92,000,000 to Wright Aeronautical Corp., which will build a new aircraft engine plant near Cincinnati, upping U. S. engine capacity by 12,000 per year. In return Wright Aeronautical Corp. guaranteed to deliver to the Army 20,115 aircraft engines in 1941-42, and gave the Army an option on 20,115 more. Wright Aeronautical Corp. presumably expects to repay a good part of the loan from profits on the orders. Mr. Knudsen's task this week...
...from the Treasury bench rose round, pink-faced Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood-known to the House as "The Cherub." In a clear tenor voice he piped: "What I want is cash." And for the next 91 minutes, speaking from notes written in his own hand, taped up in little bundles, one for each phase of his speech, he presented Great Britain with the heaviest budget in her history...
...Shop Quartet Singing in America. No mere anything-for-a-laugh letterhead organization, the S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A. takes itself fairly seriously. Heart and founder of the organization is its Permanent Third Assistant Temporary Vice Chairman, bland, round-faced Tulsa oilman Owen Clifton ("O. C.") Cash. Long addicted to informal harmonization with friends, Barbershopper Cash applied in May 1938 for a corporate charter in Oklahoma, proclaimed: "In this age of dictators and government control of everything, about the only privilege guaranteed by the Bill of Rights not in some way supervised or directed...
...Given to the city by the late Millionaire Horace Rackham, original attorney for the Ford Motor Co., who wisely took Ford stock instead of cash for his early services...