Word: paintless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unpaid bills, sobersided Dan Cantrell cannot be choosy about his work. His job as "investigator" for the Trustee Personal Finance Co. is to hound the "slows." He soon finds that the slows' lot is not a happy one, either. Families live in crowded walk-ups where dank, paintless walls "shed their plaster skin revealing the ribs of lath." Unkempt women in faded dressing gowns are readier with a pound of flesh than a $5 payment. Industrious Dan cannot remain stony before genuine hardship, eventually decides he has had enough of the "easy payment" world. Author Doyle, a credit manager...