Word: bankbook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote by proxy. Return on his stock, which usually costs from $5 to $25 per share, is limited usually to 5% or 6%. The store sells at prevailing prices, strictly for cash. A record of each member's purchases is kept, sometimes in a little book like a bankbook carried by the member. If the co-op is successful, a periodic "dividend" from the "profits" is paid in proportion to patronage. Thus a member might buy $100 worth of goods in a year, get back $10 as a rebate...
...distinguished himself by ridding Chicago of a horde of quack doctors specializing in venereal disease. His strategy was to send out, as a prospective "patient," a reporter who had a clean bill of health from a reputable physician. In the reporter's pocket would be a savings bankbook showing a modest balance. The "patient" would tearfully confess to the quack that he was about to be married but had reason to suspect that he had been exposed to gonorrhea. With his clothes left in an anteroom where the doctor's assistant could easily find and examine the bankbook...
...they found Mrs. Shipulo two weeks dead. When finally Joseph understood that his wife was not asleep, he went raving mad, was taken to a hospital psychopathic ward. In the mattress on which he had lain beside his putrefying wife, police found $1,620 cash, two Liberty bonds, a bankbook showing $350 deposits and a dozen mortgages...