Word: cashier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listed on the books as a vice president at $18,600 a year, but got an actual salary of $25 a week. The kickback to the general of the difference between the real and fictitious salaries also got to be a problem. At first it was handled in cashier's checks, but they were too easily traced. Then it was paid in $1,000 bills-but soon the Treasury began eying all big bills suspiciously. Then it was transferred in smaller bills...
Penny Wise. In Detroit, Theater Cashier Doris Trask dropped a penny, stooped to pick it up, straightened to discover that somebody had reached in her cage, snatched...
Counter-Revolution. In Chicago, Lester Elvin Brown explained to cops that he was "trying to revolutionize criminal methods" when he handed a cafe cashier a note reading: "Madam, this is a holdup. On your shoulders rests the responsibility for the aversion of a tragedy...
...efficiency engineer in nearby Oakland. It wasn't half as much fun. Remembering his father's advice, Bob Sproul stuck it out only a year-long enough to marry the girl at the next desk (says he: "I'm the victim of propinquity"). When the university cashier absconded, creating a deficit and a vacancy, Bob Sproul joyfully went back to college. He has been there ever since...
...extension of the ticket office closing hour from 5 to 7 o'clock on each Wednesday before a game, the application deadline; (2) posting of detailed ticket purchasing instructions on the bulletin board outside of the ticket office; (3) exchange of coupons for tickets outside of the cashier's cage so that more men can be accommodated; and (4) increased advertisement of the office's slack hours 9 to 11 o'clock...