Word: counterfeited
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Next, our criminal would counterfeit billions of dollars of United States money and distribute it haphazardly among the poor. This inflation would not scare business men, but give them profits. The poor at the same time leave us. Employment would increase. Recovery would have arrived...
...makes one of England's best brands of gin, the labels of which U. S. 'leggers delighted to counterfeit...
...their semi-annual convention in Manhattan, members of the National Puzzlers' League teased one another's brains for three days with: an anagram for "a counterfeit nickel" (solution: "Notice, fake lucre, tin"); a transdeletion or progressive anagram from '"sod" to "countryside" in eleven changes; a rebus of an H written inside a G, both over a W (since it is The H and writ in G on the W all, the solution is: "The handwriting on the wall"); and interminable alphagrams, charades, transposals, cryptograms, rhomboids, antigrams, palindromes, inverted pyramids and plain puzzles. Outstanding contribution was a "seventeen...
...received or paid out cash when, in 1933, he was elected president of Bank for international Settlements. But his lack of experience was no handicap. B. I. S. handles almost no cash, keeps in its vault as a solemn joke nothing but a 25? California gold piece and a counterfeit Spanish sovereign. Banker Fraser was an expert in international finance, had helped organize B. I. S., built up its profitable business in League of Nations loans and transfers among Europe's central banks. All his B. I. S. associates sincerely deplored his announcement last month that he would resign...
Rumba (Paramount). Carole Lombard, a $20,000,000 American in Cuba, is sorry Dancer George Raft was chicaned by a counterfeit lottery ticket bearing the same number as her genuine winning ticket. She goes to his dressing room to offer him the money she won, but he misunderstands. Months later after Raft has discovered and made his fortune out of the rumba, a process that involves a good deal of exciting music and exposed brunette flesh, the story wriggles up to a climax in which gangsters threaten to shoot Raft during the opening dance of his new show. His partner...