Word: refundings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force lieutenant. In order to remain an upright local citizen, the young warrior wrote, he was enclosing 30,000 drachma (about $2) to pay for an old Duluth parking ticket. Safety Commissioner Ralph G. Fiskett announced that the ticket would be "on the house" and mailed the lieutenant a refund-in drachma...
...with the dance finances. Furthermore, if a student did not go to the dance, his money would be set aside as if the price of the ballroom and band were directly proportional to the number of people who came to the dance. One collector even said that a refund would be given to those who did not attend the dance, but no receipts for the deposits were made...
Since the Navy forbids them to marry in college, several middles have found matrimony an easy way to back out of the program without having to refund the money...
...such a gangsterlike extortion by my former country, and now these two letters make me act. I am sure the only proper thing for anybody who is a Hungarian, or ever has been one, is to find the money to cover the amount of this brazen blackmail, and to refund it to the U.S. Government. There is plenty of money in Hungarian and ex-Hungarian hands in New York, Cleveland and Pittsburgh, and I fervently hope that this letter will be read by a few public-minded people, who will take up the cause. As for myself, I am enclosing...
...goods sold in U.S. department stores each year, a round 10% are returned for exchange, credit or refund. Returns not only inconvenience the stores; they help push up costs-and prices...