Word: brickyards
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...bank is broken and the bank-breaker becomes Banker. Mean while players can buy and sell among themselves, each trying to get as long suits as possible, for the more units of each suit a player holds the more the banker has to pay for each unit. (For one Brickyard a player can get $10; for two yards, $40.) When the banker buys up all the cards without being "broke." the standing of the players is determined by the amount of the notes they hold in return for the cards, or units of industry, they have sold. The game...
When he was 15, his father, realizing his nascent business ability, let him come into the brickyard as bookkeeper. The boy reorganized the yard, developed year-round work instead of seasonal...