Word: depositing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
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...
...legendary Seven Cities of Cibola, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado beat a trail along the San Pedro River in southeast Arizona. Coronado never found the fabled wealth of the cities. But in recent years, evidence of other riches-in the form of big copper and molybdenum deposits-has been found by prospectors along the San Pedro. During World War II, the Magma Copper Co., seventh biggest U.S. copper producer, took out an option and set up a subsidiary, the San Manuel Copper Corp., to explore the deposit. In the past seven years, Magma President Alexander J. McNab has spent...