Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Radcliffe officials frisked over a dozen Briggs Hall girls on the first day of Christmas vacation, after a check made out to "cash" disappeared from an upstairs room...
...disappearance of the economically self-sufficient individual. In pretechnical times most people were cultivators who lived very largely (and usually poorly) on what they produced at home. Throughout the 19th Century, this type lost ground steadily. Now in advanced countries it is almost extinct. The U.S. farmer who raises cash crops with the help of complex machines is as specialized as an airplane pilot and as dependent on others. This ever-tightening cooperation is unprecedented among mammals. The nearest biological analogies are the colonial ants and termites...
...looked like a simple business deal. Pan American World Airways wanted to pay $17.5 million cash for the assets of American Overseas Airlines and fly A.O.A.'s transatlantic routes. A.O.A.'s parent company, American Airlines, wanted to sell because it did not think transatlantic flying would continue to be profitable. Then things got complicated...