Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Clinkers & Scallops. Meanwhile, 65 feet down, his divers probed the bay floor with powerful hydraulic jet drills and huge vacuum-cleanerlike suction pumps, looking for cash but finding mostly romance. So far, they had raised what seemed to be an ancient, encrusted cannonball. It turned out to be a clinker dumped off a World War II coal ship. A piece of ancient planking turned out to be part of the town pier. Some mysterious round objects turned out to be weights from a modern fishing net. A bonanza haul of large scallops had a solid market value of three shillings...
...kinda stinkin', I guess. He told me he was the governor of Montana. We got a lot of tourists get to thinking they're governor sometime or other. I didn't believe this guy, but I told him I'd help him to cash a check . . ." Eight or nine hotspots later, said Bollinger, they wound up at a "girly show," and the man who claimed to be governor still hadn't been able to cash a check. When he got too noisy the cops arrested him as a drunk, locked him up for six hours...
...Margin for Error. To pull $50 million a year into Northgate, Allison's architects designed the center with the precision of a cash register. The parking lots will hold 4,000 cars, and no automobile will be more than 600 ft. from the nearest store...
...taciturn ten offers ten-room house for immediate sacrifice sale. Tennis Court. Nr. Beach in Santa Monica. $26,000 in direct sale by owner; $11,000 cash required. Call...
...fiancee and her moneybags father to imprison him in a job as the head of a paper box factory. Then, with the help of his fiancee's younger sister (who loves him from the start) and a colorful assortment of race-track characters, he scrounges enough cash to turn a long shot into a Derby winner...