Word: counterfeits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month ago, as collateral for a loan, Chicago's North Shore National Bank accepted twelve $1,000 Cities Service sinking-fund bonds. When they were sent to New York for checking, the bank was told that the bonds were counterfeit. The FBI went to work while the New York Stock Exchange warned investors of printing errors in the counterfeits: a narrow white border, a mottled look on their green seal, breaks in the crossing on capital...
...permission, the Army got out a comic book showing Sad Sack up against the pitfalls and pratfalls of civilian life. When he draws his first paycheck, he finds that after all the taxes and deductions, he has only a nickel left. Even that turns out to be counterfeit, and Sad Sack is glad to reenlist...
...customs officers saw a Chinese sneak aboard a plane in the airport hangar and emerge carrying twelve fat envelopes. They grabbed him and recovered $142,000. At Philippine airfields, $171,000 more was confiscated. In Manila, an informer led Ogden to a man who offered to sell him 500 counterfeit money-order blanks at 25 pesos ($12.50) each, and obligingly showed him the printing plant where they were being turned out. Police nabbed the forgers...
...rest, the story is overplotted confusing and lacking in dramatic force Only in the grand-scale scenes of the closing minutes, when the gladiators and lion; are turned loose on the martyrs, does this film develop any real excitement. Up to then, it dawdles turgidly over a tame counterfeit of Roman debauchery, an involved political-religious intrigue and a routine love story that pairs a patrician's daughter (Michele Morgan) with a crypto-Christian gladiator (Henri Vidal...
Last week a wave of shock ads ("No one under 16 will be admitted") ushered the claptrap into Manhattan. New York critics brushed the picture off with amused disdain. Whether taken as an inept counterfeit of Hollywood gangster movies or a witless parody, No Orchids is so ludicrous that its thugs' thinly disguised British accents seem minor imperfections...