Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...peddled his plan from publisher to publisher until it was accepted by the huge and profitable Hulton Press, owners of the Picture Post (circ. 1,500,000). Its first issue a fortnight ago was a 750,000-copy sellout. For last week's issue newsdealers had placed cash-backed orders for 1,986,000 copies...
...cajole or browbeat articles out of reluctant writers. Whenever they are so bold as to bring up the subject of money, Levitas tartly replies: "Don't expect to profit from the truth." To help pay for printing what he considers the truth, Levitas periodically wangles sizable cash contributions from sympathetic conservatives and such labor leaders as the garment workers' David Dubinsky...
Though a little oil dribbled in from scattered leases, the company's cash gushed out much faster. By last August, according to subcommittee records, Texmass had on hand properties valued at only $3,890,000. (RFC disagreed; it said they were worth $44.5 million...
Some summer theaters make their greatest profits not from ticket sales, but from apprentice fees. Stage-struck youngsters with ingratiating smiles and a paucity of acting ability will do almost anything to appear on a stage even to the extent of paying cash to a slightly shadowy producer. The producer claims to teach the smiling youth to act; usually the aspiring actor or actress will end up sweeping the stage before performances...
...loan at the $1.47-a-bushel support price less charges. Then a neighbor told him he was a fool: he could put his entire crop under loan at the support price, then buy all the corn he needed for feed at 65½ a bushel in the cash market. In short, by selling all of his own corn to the Government and buying in the open market what he needed for feed, the farmer could make an extra 50¢ to 80¢ on every bushel fed to his pigs and chickens...