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...C-NOTE, AS IT USED TO BE CALLED in Raymond Chandler novels, will never be the same. To frustrate counterfeiters, the Treasury Department has given the $100 bill a complete overhaul, and will begin releasing the new currency in a matter of weeks. Treasury spent nearly 10 years on the redesign and has added any number of state-of-the-art features: microprinting, color-shifting ink, a polymer security thread. The most striking alteration, however, is the enlargement of Benjamin Franklin's portrait: he now dominates the bill like a movie star in a newspaper advertisement...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Bigger and younger in major C-note make-over, and counterfeiters can go fly a kite...
...realized he'd forgotten to pack the special shaving cream he likes, he had a can air- expressed for Saturday delivery. Approximate cost of not having to use Barbasol for two shaves: $45. But when you're earning $50 million a year in interest, anything less than a C-note isn't even worth bothering to pick up off the pavement. A hundred dollars to a billionaire is like a dime to a millionaire or a penny to anyone else...
...pays columnists only sixty-five dollars a shot when in fact he is going a full one hundred or what I prefer to think of as a century Ironically it was Navasky who insisted that I promise never to reveal that he finally agreed to come across with a C-note for each column it might give the other fellows ideas he said I promised...
...formed the almost ecclesiastical function of believing in Erie's shabby bravado, his tales of bedding girls from the Follies and beating the cards and dice, of winning on the "bangtails" at the track and the time in New Orleans he lit a cigar with a C-note. Hughie was his audience, the receptacle of the deceits that keep Erie alive. Charley (Peter Maloney), the new clerk, listens in the dim lobby with a sort of it-takes-all-kinds distraction, but eventually and subtly is transformed into the new Hughie, Erie's collaborator in his own illusions...