Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...never fought as the other warlords fought. Though they all double-crossed and intrigued, they also observed certain amenities. They disliked to take each other prisoner, settled battles with silver bullets (.i.e., cash bribes), often left one city gate open for retreat when they had surrounded a rival, even provided transport for the defeated general's belongings (they hoped for a return of the courtesy in reversed circumstances), considered it boorish to attack in bad weather. Mao fought for keeps...
...Hallowe'en mask robberies, and a noticeable decline of crime in Massachusetts. Robberies in the Boston area took a noticeable downward trend after January 17 last, when seen men "of medium height and weight," clad in navy pea jackets and wearing grotesque Hallowe'en masks, carried out the largest cash robbery in American history. The records of what the local newspapers like to call "Boston's crack Criminal Investigation Department" show very few major larcenies in Massachusetts in the last eleven months...
...days after the crime when Federal money bags were found in Peabody and Sangus. Police were probably thinking of the pea-jackets, or of the sailor knots used to tie two Brink's cashiers and three guards. They may have been thinking back 15 years to the second largest cash theft in history, when ten thugs with machine guns robbed an arptored car of $427,000 in Brooklya and escaped across Jamsica Bay in a high powered speed-boat. The money in that case was never recovered...
...Milwaukee has paid off all arrears on its preferred stock, has $25 million in cash, and this year will probably show a net income of $15 million after all fixed charges. The future looked so bright that Crowley announced a $2 dividend on the common stock, the first the Milwaukee has paid in 33 years. Obviously, shrewd Leo Crowley hoped that grateful stockholders, when they get voting power in May, would vote continuance of his regime...
Money Isn't Everything. In Alexandria, Va., someone broke into the New Majestic Cafe, fried himself a steak, left $100 in the cash register untouched. In Providence Township, Pa., an armed thug visited Mrs. Doris Walton, ordered scrambled eggs, sat down with her to watch television-at gunpoint-for three hours...