Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Happy Homes. Wars and epidemics now hold little terror for Metropolitan, which has so much cash that it has been forced to invent new ways of investing it. One of the most successful: its eight apartment house developments in New York, California and Virginia (total capacity: 125,000 people), in which the Metropolitan has invested $300 million in 30 years. To Metropolitan's 33 million individual policyholders, one of the most reassuring facts is that the company's checks have long borne the signatures of Washington (Lawrence, third vice president) and Lincoln. Soon they will have...
...year. He earns $1,500 for every minute he broadcasts. He is seen & heard-and apparently loved-by 40 million people. His homey, cracker-barrel commercials for tea, cigarettes, furniture polish, floor wax, window cleanser, crackers, shampoos, soup, home permanents, hand lotion and hair tonic set cash registers jingling profitably across the nation. He is the greatest salesman who ever stood before a microphone...
...firmly resolved "never to just go out there to Hollywood and cash in on my popularity and make money." The way Arthur Godfrey looks at it, at least at the moment, that would be unwholesome...
Odium's big deal put Atlas Corp.'s assets at 75% cash-the first time the company has been that liquid since September 1929, when Odium foresaw the crash and got out of the stock market. Last week, Odium wasn't worrying about another crash. He was relaxing in his heated swimming pool in Indio, Calif., treading water several times a day to help his rheumatoid arthritis and biding his time for another "special situation...
When 20-year-old Levi Strauss sailed from Manhattan round Cape Horn to San Francisco in 1850 to seek a fortune in the gold fields, he carried a roll of canvas in his baggage. He intended to sell it to a tentmaker to get enough cash for a grubstake. But when he got ashore, the complaint of a friendly miner gave him a better idea. "Pants don't wear worth a hoot up in the diggins," said the miner. "Can't get a pair strong enough to last no time...