Word: crediters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Christmas is also the busy season for pickpockets and con men, for the bogus-check casher, the passer of counterfeit money and the fraudulent user of credit cards. According to Police Lieut. Allen Gore of New York City, all of these criminals are difficult to spot. "No one looks like a pickpocket or a shoplifter," says he. "There are no 'types.' " Gore advises that the best way for men to protect their money is to carry it in a shirt pocket or the inside pocket of a jacket; women should bury their wallets deep in their handbags after...
...credit-reporting agency in Mississippi filed an investigation by a field agent that quoted townfolk as saying that a female insurance adjuster was "scatterbrained," "peculiar," "neurotic or psychotic." Only after a drawn-out struggle and considerable loss of work was the adjuster able to persuade the agency to delete the words "neurotic and psychotic" from her file...
...commercial photographer from Baton Rouge, La., ran into financial difficulties while setting up his business in 1957 and had to defer payment on various accounts. He has since become successful enough to buy-on credit-an airplane for his business, and Dun & Bradstreet rates his borrowing capacity at about $35,000. But three months ago his wife was unable to charge two cans of paint for the family swimming pool because of the eleven-year-old local credit-bureau report...
...insurance adjuster in Norfolk, Va., was fired by his company because he allegedly referred claimants to certain attorneys. The insurance company informed the local credit bureau of his dismissal, whereupon the adjuster sued for slander and collected a $1,000 judgment. Because he sued, even though he won, he has since been classified as a "dangerous" credit risk, on the ground that he is "litigious." He has been unable to find employment, except as a $2-an-hour security guard...
...television newsman in Shreveport, La., was erroneously reported to have had his car repossessed. It took him more than a year to have that false report corrected, and his battle with the credit agency has since cost him a job and a home loan...