Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Government had avoided considering it he did not say. He knew as well as the British that when Britain runs out of cash for buying cash & carry, aid to Britain will cease unless the U. S. offers a new kind of aid. That aid might take the form 1) of simply giving Britain arms, 2) of bartering Britain arms in exchange for other valuable considerations (as was done in the destroyer deal), 3) of loans to Britain. Of the alternatives, the last was the most likely. If so, the President didn't let it worry him. He was looking...
Every Sunday night a group of worried characters step up to a mike in the studios of Manhattan's WMCA. Some of them are unhappy about their love life, some are moody about lack of cash. But whatever their problems, they are usually unabashed in discussing them, which gives the Good Will Hour, in which they participate, a fine confessional flavor. All they get for reciting their troubles is the advice of a small, damp-eyed, foxy-looking gentleman, sharp in manner and dress, who is the current top in aerial soul searchers...
...Educator Robert Maynard Hutchins' view that Chicago was a city of crime, stocky, curly-headed Lloyd Downs Lewis, Chicago Daily News sports editor, drama critic, historian (Chicago-The History of Its Reputation), bade Host Hutchins goodnight, departed. In the street Editor Lewis & wife met three robbers, surrendered $8 cash, a mink coat, $4,350 worth of jewelry. Returning to the house, he announced ruefully: "I take back everything...
...unfamiliar narrow counters, laden with cheap trinkets, household goods, gewgaws. Prices were marked, and signs said "Look What One Milreis Will Buy." The gawkers did not buy. Then, one and a half hours after opening, a seven-year-old girl broke the ice, bought a 2 milreis doll. The cash register has been banging ever since...
Thus did the Atlantic Coast Line launch the 1,500-mile trip of its "Live Stock Development Special." Object: to build Florida's cattle and forest industries, up the State's cash income, and help A. C. L.'s traffic. Less extravagant than it looks, the trip costs A. C. L. only about $5,000. An other $5,000 (for exhibits, advertising, etc.) is borne by Florida's Department of Agriculture. The third partner is University of Florida's Agricultural College, which contributed three months of hard preparatory work, a staff of 20 specialists...