Word: bankamericards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these full color 11"x14" (ave.size) prints are finally available to the public at &19.95 for a collection of 18 prints. Send cash, check or money order to: U.S. Surplus, Dept. #X27, P. O. Box 605, Tarzana, Calif.91356. Fully GUARANTEED. Certificate of authenticity given with each set. Mastercharge and BankAmericard OK (give card number...
...families who are more likely to want to spurn their cards in favor of a discount for paying cash on a major purchase, say, of furniture. Rather than just wait to see what will happen next, Consumers Union is pursuing another antitrust suit against a member bank of the BankAmericard system...
...increasingly demonetized society. But what about the cash customer - is he getting an even break? In a suit filed in U.S. district court in Washington last week, the Consumers Union maintained that he is being shortchanged. Naming the American Express Co. and a member bank of the BankAmericard system, C.U. charged that credit-card companies are in effect guilty of price fixing...
...rise again. An unprecedented amount of consumer buying is on the cuff. Consumer credit went up more than $1 billion in each of the last six months tabulated; the rise in August, the latest month reported, tied May's record $1.4 billion. The Bank of America reports its BankAmericard volume running an extra-high 35% ahead of a year ago. The willingness of consumers to go into debt is perhaps the strongest of all indications of their new confidence...
...sell it, then to give it away. Hemmed in by legalisms, she finally donated it to an elementary-school carnival where, for only a dime, customers could swing a hammer at Mrs. Fobair's "frustration car." Mrs. Evelyn Grubb of Colonial Heights, Va., applied twice for a BankAmericard; both times the company replied that her husband's signature was required on the application. Mrs. Phyllis Kline and her husband, also of Tampa, owned an interest in a nearby orange grove that Mrs. Kline wanted to put on the market. But since the name of her husband, Air Force...