Word: counterfeiter
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Mister 880. A sentimental comedy with Edmund Gwenn as an amiable bane of the U.S. Secret Service's counterfeit men (TIME...
Director Mark Robson's accent on gloom, the script's blurry counterfeit of the novel's hero and Actor Granger's lack of depth and force all combine to produce an effect which is neither dramatic nor provocative, but merely overpoweringly monotonous...
...tape, he designed the now familiar American Express travelers' cheques. They now comprise the bulk of the company's billion-dollar business, and have become standard exchange in every corner of the world. (So valued are they, in fact, that last year a ring started to counterfeit $1,000,000 of them-and was nabbed.) As the demand for travelers' cheques grew, American. Express had to expand its services abroad (it sold its domestic freight business to Railway Express...
...Saxony, in Germany's Russian zone, the Communist government banned all Christmas carols that mentioned angels or the Christ Child. At a fair in Berlin's Soviet sector, swings, merry-go-rounds and roller coasters whirled in a raucous counterfeit of yuletide gaiety, but there was little or nothing for shoppers to buy. At grey-market shops, a pound of chocolates cost a laborer's full week's wage. Berliners stared at the meager, overpriced goods in frustrated despair; women wept. "Dear God," muttered one Hausfrau who had been searching in vain for some coffee cups...
...Harvard-Yale game of 1891 produced America's first football ticket scandal. There were no laws against scalping and there was no such thing as a federal admission tax, but it was strictly against the law to counterfeit tickets, which is exactly what a New York speculator did before his activities were halted by a gendarme...