Word: counterfeited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James Michael Curley, Massachusetts' rough-&-ruddy Irish politico, who has been mayor of staunchly Catholic Boston off & on since 1914, and is again a candidate for the job this year, received his first campaign contribution from two soldiers in the Philippines: 20 pesos, which turned out to be counterfeit...
...Earle Stanley Gardner's whodunit, The Case of the Counterfeit Eye, a San Francisco eyemaker named Sidney O. Noles solved an optical mystery. Readers who looked up Noles's name in the San Francisco telephone book found it. No fictional character, Eye-Maker Noles sells glass eyes at $10 to $20 apiece, says the detective story was the best advertising he ever...
Fine Attitude. In Chattanooga, Tenn., the police manfully recorded a 50? deficit: a fine paid in a counterfeit half dollar...
...practice the new currency runs into dizzying complications. To get the system going, OPA had to print 150,000,000 ration books. The Government Printing Office enlisted the help of 19 printing companies. The job involved printing more stamps (30 billion-all made counterfeit-proof) than all the postage stamps issued by the U.S. in the past twelve years...
Love's Lovely Counterfeit is an expert thriller told by the most literate U.S. pulp writer. Incidentally, it reduces Author Cain's erstwhile social significance to trimmings as dutiful as the cherry in an Old-Fashioned cocktail...