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...Treasury to make him feel at home. He will be top boss of-among others-the Bureau of Internal Revenue, the Secret Service, the Bureau of Narcotics, the Bureau of Engraving & Printing (which printed $9,441,380,000 worth of currency in fiscal 1951), the Bureau of the Mint (a billion pennies alone), the U.S. Coast Guard (35,000 officers & men, 192 cutters, 62 patrol boats and 36 lightships) and the Coast Guard air arm (113 planes). He will preside over a domain of 88,000 people. He will have his own flag, serve as a trustee for some...
...wouldn't they be good with mint sauce...
...sell cameras, jewelry and novelties by mail. Sometimes K. & S. mailed out unsolicited merchandise, gambled that enough people would send in their money to turn a profit. Often Koolish mailed out punchboards, furnished the merchandise prizes for the lucky winners. He spread out to candy (Chicago Mint Co.), counter devices such as peanut vendors and handgrip measurers (Pierce Tool & Manufacturing Co.), silk stockings and insurance. Koolish was so successful that he made a fortune now put at $4,382,348; he also built a fat record of complaints with Better Business Bureaus...
...tongue! It's cloying. For pages and pages he talks on in this manner: "You know I've been so close to the details I've paid no attention to the clothing of the day. First we find a buried star and now we go to dig up a mint-new human." And later on he says "The sweetness of your offer is a good smell on the west wind...
While the U. S. mint stores its valuables in the steel and concrete bastions of Fort Knox, the Irish Government has gone it one better and has turned the catacombs of Widener into its private treasure house...