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...savings bonds and get $38,400 back. Worth $51,200 in ten years." The get-rich-quick scheme, starting in the South last fall, spread into New York and New England last week. Each participant buys two bonds (total outlay: $37.50), gives one to his sponsor and pops the receipt for the other in the mail to the person on the top of an eleven-name list. He then knocks the top name off, and adds his to the bottom. Then he lines up two friends, collects a bond apiece from them (thus gets his money back), and makes sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Any Bonds Today? | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...chief collector of revenue for the Peruvian government leaned back in a chair in his oak-paneled office one morning last week, held up a slip of paper and chortled. "This," he remarked genially, "is the biggest private check ever paid in Peru." Then, turning businesslike, he handed a receipt to the lawyer who had just given Peru $3,000,000 on behalf of Aristotle Socrates Onassis, shipping, gambling and whaling tycoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Tycoon's Triumph | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

Athletics Brings Receipt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Clears $100,000 Due to Raise in Tuition | 10/23/1954 | See Source »

With only loose cash in his envelope, a student has no way of providing he deserves an extra ticket, but with a cancelled check he will have his won receipt. Any student who does not receive an extra ticket after paying with a check, can re-apply for a second ticket with another check. If two cancelled checks appear for the same game, he can justifiably claim a refund--and an apology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ticket Checks | 10/23/1954 | See Source »

Undergraduates without checking accounts should find the trouble of asking a friend to make out a draft to them worth the extra effort. This check can in turn be made out to the H.A.A., thereby ensuring all undergraduates of a receipt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ticket Checks | 10/23/1954 | See Source »

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