Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spare Part. In Rio de Janeiro, an air line passenger who insisted on carrying his artificial leg instead of wearing it had to pay excess-baggage charges...
Accumulated Dividends. In Reno, a new type of chain letter, using wives instead of dimes for currency, promised each man who kept up the chain 16,781 women...
...advised by 'Poon officialdom that an unwary Radcliffe girl once sent in a subscription check without the usual coercion of the circulation department. The incident proved such a shock that the staff, instead of the check, bounced into paralysis. After two frustrating years of silence from the boys, bloody but unbowed she sent another two bucks to Lampy's lottery...
Banker Giannini has always said he would quit when his bank became the world's greatest. But last week A. P., who had formally "retired" again last spring, showed no signs of quitting. Instead, he was off on a three-month tour of Europe to see about some foreign loans...
...seen that physical reconversion will be no vast or long-drawn problem. But reconversion is more than a physical process. It requires new attitudes, and above all acceptance of the fact that production, prices, and . . . wages must now conform to what a multitude of consumers want and can pay, instead of the orders of one customer [the Federal Government] whose needs are insatiable and interest in prices secondary...