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...system was simple: he pocketed cash a depositor pushed across the counter-usually $25 and never more than $100. He credited the sum to the depositor's account, then extracted ledger cards of other depositors. These he shifted around, always keeping out deposit cards equivalent to his total embezzlement to that date. Thus the ledgers always balanced, and the defrauded depositors never discovered the thefts. In 14 years George took $7,541 without a soul's being the wiser, although there were about 150 bank examinations during the period...
...went into plastics. One of the Hanna interests, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co., is the largest producer of soft coal in the U.S. A Hanna subsidiary, the Hanna Coal and Ore Corp., is currently the leading force in a $225 million project to tap the 400 million-ton ore deposit in Labrador. His Labrador interests have made Humphrey an enthusiastic proponent of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Total assets of the M. A. Hanna Co.: $121 million. Earnings in 1951: $14 million. Industrialists give George Humphrey the major credit for the company's rise to eminence. Said one of his associates...
Raftery has found enough tools and the bones of enough domestic animals to feel sure that men who lived on Lough Gara were prosperous farmers. Not only could they mill flour, but they had also reached the stage of specialization of labor. A large deposit of 200 flake-cutting tools found in one spot suggests a village toolsmith's shop. One Bronze Age axhead is so finely, finished it might have been machine made...
...billion, they tried to stir up public interest in buying stocks, hoping to prevent the rise of any new dominant clique. With the help of occupation officials, the Japanese government sponsored pamphlets, lectures and movies to convince the common people that stocks were as honorable as a bank deposit...
...Dividends may be collected in dollars through an involved method of appointing a Japanese proxy to deposit them...