Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Terre Haute, Ind., a blind newsstand manager invented a Braille cash register...
...Poetry, Anecdotes and Pleasantries" (sample pleasantry: "Remember the Foolish Virgins in the Biblical parable and do not be caught with an empty gas tank"). It has articles on how to run a roadside vegetable stand, how to serve baked beans, why old nails and spikes should be saved (for cash), how to make candles, dresses, how to avoid food poisoning. As of old, it records that "Ann Bloomer introduced the bloomer on Jan. 2," that "wolves kill 3 at St. Paul [on Nov. 18], 1891," that John the Baptist was separated from his head...
...choose between evacuating to unoccupied France or being sent to Poland, Germany's Siberia. Almost all of the 800,000 Frenchmen naturally chose France. The Germans, under Gauleiter Josef Burckel, gave them a few hours to pack a suitcase and acquire not more than 2,000 francs in cash, then shoved them across the border. Each day five to seven trains, flying the medieval cross of Lorraine, carried some 6,000 Lorrainers to Lyon, thence south to the Midi. Mostly the evacuees were farmers, welcome to the fallow land of southern France...
Total collections from all college dormitories and Houses in the Student Council War Relief Drive inaugurated ten days ago reached $1400 in actual cash, last night, it was announced by David D. Henry '41, chairman of the committees sponsoring the drive...
...seized cash was presently handed back, but all the Americas had been warned to watch for Fascist money passers...