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...chains began offering them to automobile-loving consumers who didn't want to trek back to their hometown bank to get cash. But it wasn't until the postwar boom of the 1950s that credit cards really caught on. In 1950, Diners Club issued its first card--made of cardboard--for use in 27 restaurants in New York City. A year later, nearly 20,000 Americans carried it in their wallet. American Express, which had specialized in traveler's checks, created its card in 1958; the same year, Bank of America mailed its first 60,000 BankAmericards (now Visas...
...pile under it, halfway boxed-up as if they’d been taken to a tag sale and then brought back unsold. Maybe Andrew’s little brother still uses this room sometimes, but no one’s around at the moment. In a cardboard box they have Starfox, Sonic, Super Mario 2 and Mortal Kombat II. It takes a minute to find the right TV/video setting, but eventually it all works. I play a few rounds of Mortal Kombat against the computer, lose, and turn it off. I decide to go down to the kitchen...
...companies from IBM to Walt Disney have paid him to drum up enthusiasm for their products. The Wall Street Journal even ran a piece (in 1998, ahem) about the pitchman's skills at addressing crowds with "just a whiff of cheerful megalomania." Sure, Bauer's probably living in a cardboard box made of $4 business cards (foil-stamped!) right now, but you have to admire the man's spirit. Or maybe just giggle at it. Because life is not about being liked. It's about being effective...
...eliminate their targets, students have to either poke them with a cardboard carrot measuring at least 8 inches, or pour hot sauce or vinegar into their target’s food without their noticing (ouch!), according to an e-mail from the Leverett HoCo social chairs...
Eliot House’s Assassins took place during Reading Period in January, the chilly landscape mirroring the icy, murderous hearts of its players. Assassins from Eliot certainly had the most number of choices for their method of elimination: weapons included water guns, water balloons, sharpies, and cardboard swords. Killings could also be accomplished via poisoning the target with Tabasco sauce or taping a note marked “pwnd” to the target’s body...