Word: checking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Enclosed herewith find check for $10 in payment for subscription to FORTUNE. If I enjoy this magazine to the same degree as I do TIME my investment will bring large dividends...
...Coast Guard cutter. The intricate code had been deciphered, its source determined by radio compass. Thus had Prohibition men located the syndicate headquarters. New Jersey's Prohibition-Administrator William J. Calhoun, superviser of the syndicate roundup, boasted that by eavesdropping on this telltale radio he had for months checked every pint smuggled in. Unperturbed by the 10,000 cases of liquor whisked in every week, Administrator Calhoun had shrewdly plotted his concerted raid. Following up radio clues, he had learned all the privy affairs of his prospective victims, names of leaders, location of substations, connections with reputable banks...
Enclosed find my check for $10 for one years subscription to FORTUNE. If it's one half as good as TIME it will be worth the price...
...first full-size seadrome midway between Manhattan and Bermuda. Studying hydrographic charts of the region he figured that there must exist a high spot on the ocean floor about where he would like it. He asked Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams to send a survey ship to check his calculations. He was right. The survey showed a little plateau just 400 miles from Manhattan and 375 miles from Bermuda, in an almost direct line. It is six miles long by four miles wide and only two miles below sea level, whereas the surrounding ocean is three to four...
...year). As a Senate clerk he also signed the U. S. payroll and drew a salary at the rate of $3,000 per year from the Government. This he turned over to another Bingham clerk. After he had left Washington in August, Senator Bingham sent him a personal check...