Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...back of their hands to cafe society's glamor girls) 18-year-old Muriel Klushin, $15-a-week stenographer, tall, lovely, brunette, was announced winner over 261 rivals. Muriel's prize: a round of Manhattan's most expensive nightspots (with the judges), $100 in cash. With the money Muriel announced she would buy an Easter outfit-but no $2.98 dresses, 98162; hats, 59162; stockings...
...more than successful. His tour was timed perfectly to cash in on the mounting antipathy to the Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations. The suppression of the Dail Eireann by the British shocked Americans who thought they had fought the war for the self-determination of peoples. The hunger strike and eventual death of Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, brought pro-Irish feeling to white heat and overshadowed for a time the U. S. Presidential contest...
During Depression, Europe went sour. At the end of 1931, Radiator still had cash of $20,061,000, $2,244,000 more than its funded debt plus current liabilities. Next year, with business collapsing, the company took an $18,568,000 charge-off against its $68,770,779 accumulated surplus...
...Brontosaurus were to snort in Wall Street, it would sound no stranger than did a two-column ad in the Wall Street Journal, fortnight ago. "WANTED FAST! . . . One man with $15,000 cash money or two men with $7,500 cash money each. . . . AND FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE PLEASE HURRY. I am just getting ready to dig a 4,300-foot well in Ector County, West Texas . . . and ... I don't believe there is even any doubt but that we will have anywhere from 50 feet to 100 feet of oil saturation and make anywhere from...
This winter, for the 13th year, 29-year-old Jimmy Demaret took time out from his teaching job to join the country's top-notch professionals in the circuit of southern tournaments-still hoping, after years of picking up nothing but experience, to pick up a little cash and prestige. Two years ago he licked famed Sam Snead in the San Francisco Match Play tournament. Last year he won the Los Angeles Open. In golf, almost anything can happen...