Word: checkbook
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Arizona (Columbia), not to be confused with California, Colorado, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Nevada, Wyoming or Little Old New York, is a remnant of pre-War Hollywood economy when a $2,000,000 budget was as commonplace an item in a producer's checkbook as a mink coat for the wife. Needing a fancy jewel to decorate its year's offerings, Columbia allotted it $1,500,000. Producer-Director Ruggles hiked his company off to a location near Tucson, battled weather, dust and sickness last summer until his costs had mounted to $2,250,000. Rival studios, shaving...
...Negro paid his dollar. Then he took his "checkbook" to the nearest liquor store, which promptly called the Better Business Bureau, set Manager Gordon Smith investigating. The National Depository of America, he found, is the brain child of Frank O'Hearn, a former Toronto broker. Since 1932 his avocation has been economic theorizing. Its culmination is the National Depository, whose purpose is to "bring permanent prosperity to America." Its details he guards with crusty jealousy. After all, says O'Hearn, it took him eight years to figure out the scheme, so he doesn't expect anybody...