Word: pocketer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...other fighting seadog moved up was Rear Admiral Sir Henry H. Harwood, hero of the Battle of the Plate, where with three cruisers he licked the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee. Sir Henry was called to the Admiralty to replace Vice Admiral Sir Geoffrey Blake as assistant chief of staff and a member of the controlling Admiralty Board...
Down into his fabulous cashless pocket dug the brown hand of shrewd Negro Cultist Major J. ("Father") Divine, and bought a new "heaven": the $500,000, 21-room Tudor mansion once the property of Manhattan Realtor Leo S. Bing, in wealthy Tarrytown, N. Y. Assessed at $169,000, last sold for $27,000, Divine got it for $36,000, will enjoy as one of his nearest neighbors the Duchesse de Talleyrand, formerly Anna Gould, who was reported "pretty angry...
...ordinary citizen, pulling a few crumpled bills, odd change and trolley tokens from his pocket, may wonder who has all this money. Bankers (holding about $1,200,000,000 in currency, about 15%) wonder too. Some possible explanations: 1) hoarding by foreigners, 2) increased need for small coins for sales taxes, vending and pinball machines, 3) decline in checking accounts because of service charges...
Great Britain last week totted up how much it costs to fight Adolf Hitler, found if September's weekly peak expenditures of ?70,000,000 were maintained the year would close with Britain ?3,570,000,000 "out of pocket." To make up the difference between ?70,000,000 weekly outgo and estimated tax revenues of ?30,000,000 weekly, ?20,000,000 was coining in from subscription to war issues, ?10,000,000 from sale of gold and securities abroad and the rest from customers' deposits lent by joint stock banks to the Treasury. Orthodox Economist...
...Anderson, S. C., a pensive stranger stood gazing into the depths of a trout hatchery. When fish became scarcer, mystified officials first scratched their heads, then broke in on the stranger's waterside musings. Through a hole in his pocket he was dangling a line, pulling his catch through a pants...