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...pounds of forms, in triplicate, for the files of nine different government offices, just to build a house. An Italian soldier, wounded in 1943 and certified in 1946 as 50% disabled, finally got on the pension rolls last month (with no retroactive pay). A businessman who filed a tax refund claim six years ago received the acknowledgment last week; he does not expect the refund for years. People who years ago ran two words together in telegrams find themselves summoned by registered mail, told to fill out forms and wait for hours to pay 3? for the extra word...
...entrance fee of $2 will be charged to each player in each category. This fee will be refunded to all players who remain in the tournament until eliminated, but refund will not be made where individuals fail to play their scheduled matches, it was announced...
...back as 1946. CAB says its general investigation of company (TIME, March 18) showed that "for the 1946-53 period alone Pan American's expense, underwritten with subsidy, may have been overstated by as much as $6,500,000." Agency also is pressing Pan Am to refund its $5,936,000 subsidy for Pacific operations...
Q.E.D. In San Francisco, the Traffic Fines Bureau received Howard Frohlich's $2 parking tag in an envelope along with: a 20? dividend check from one share of Pan American World Airways stock, a state expense check for $1.35. and a 40? stockbroker's refund check, all made out to Frohlich and endorsed to the bureau, totaled it up to $1.95, looked again, found his personal check...
Price War. In Baltimore, calculating that he had 7? worth of beer left when the barkeep announced closing time, Patrick Duran noisily demanded a refund, refused on principle to accept an offer of 10? in reparations from a policeman who showed up to make peace, responded to another law officer's comment ("For five cents I'll lock you up") by plunking down a nickel, was hauled off to the station...