Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...December Ralph Johnson Bunche will go to Oslo, Norway's capital, to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, which, according to the will of Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite, must be awarded "without distinction of nationality." In Oslo Bunche will get a gold medal and a cash award of about $31,700. He has not decided what he will do with the money. "I'm a very conservative person by nature," he said last week, "and I never spend anything before I get it." To celebrate the news, added the usually abstemious Bunche, he had bought a champagne...
...year after her first visit to the clinic, Margaret Pierce became gravely ill, was admitted to another hospital. The nurse who put her to bed was surprised to find that she carried $4,000 in cash. Within three days Margaret Pierce was dead. Soon her will was filed; except for $1,000 to a cousin, she had left everything to Memorial, but hospital officials did not expect it would amount to much. Last week, when her safe deposit box was opened, jewelry, stocks, bonds, gold and bank books showed that Margaret Pierce had repaid Memorial's kindness...
...latest Waltari should make the cash registers clang just as loudly as The Egyptian did. His publisher confidently predicts for The Adventurer a sale of "six figures in six weeks...
...given away ten of her millions for various causes and charities. When & if the Compass ran through its nest egg, the chances were good that Aunt Anita would cheerfully ante up again. But last week Editor Thackrey made a sad announcement: The Compass has just about run out of cash and Aunt Anita was not available. Wrote Thackrey: "Since Mrs. Elaine's serious illness last fall . . . it has not been possible to discuss further financing with her, and it does not seem likely that it will be possible to do so in the near future, if at all again...
...makes a wire recording of everything he says on the block, refunds the buyer's cash if he has misrepresented an animal in any way. At 64 the colonel is still going strong, this week drove 200 miles to preside over an auction near Denver. Says he: "If I could have looked ahead and seen the long trips, and sleepless nights, I might have thought better of that walking cultivator...