Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...month and 10% of each officer's pay was deducted to fill the purchase kitty. Meanwhile, Korea's ambassador to Washington was told to start looking for a ship. Last September Korea's government plunked down $18,000 of hard-won cash to buy a sturdy little 175-ft. patrol craft, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy's training ship Ensign Whitehead. A crew of 16 Korean officers was flown to New York to bring her home. They rechristened her the Bak Dusan, studied her vagaries in a two-week orientation course at the academy, painted...
...said he'd probably think something was wrong." The robbers conferred, hurriedly grabbed a last batch of moneybags and glided away. In their haste they left at least $1,000,000 behind -but it had been a profitable 20 minutes anyhow. Their take was $1,000,000 in cash and $500,000 in checks, the largest cash haul in U.S. history...
...criminal would work to help them -the temptation to drink and brag, to spend conspicuously, to quarrel over shares, to tell their molls too much. But it might take a while before the boys got tired of just riffling their fingers through a million dollars in cool cash, or lighting cigarettes with $1,000 bills...
...gossiped that he wanted to pay off his corporate debts (estimated to be upwards of $50 million) and use the rest to develop two promising new oilfields. Why had he gone to RFC? The fact that he had done so seemed to mean that he could not get the cash from private sources, since RFC lends money only when private sources...
...Maharaja of Baroda, 41, was short of cash. Up for sale went his plane: a silver-painted, twin-engined Dakota with a day cabin, night cabin, cocktail bar and cream-colored kitchen. The Maharaja's friends said that he had been watching his budget ever since his 8,164-square-mile state pensioned him at $532,000 a year eight months ago when it joined Bombay. There were also "For Sale" signs on all three of his houses in England...