Word: scrip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scrip, a Royalist journal in Athens, printed photographs of the Ministers who were executed by the Revolutionary Government last year and said: "The living say nothing, but the dead speak. You have returned because your former adversaries are dead. Where are they? They lie under the soil on which you have come to trample again. Your path is darkened by their shadows. Can you close their tombs...
...Sol?cattle, men, horses, rifles, six-shooters, across uncharted plains to Abilene, on the trail of the North Star, The difficulties include Indians, stampedes, storms, the fording of rivers believed impossible to ford and, throughout, the complications of an ingeniously villainous plot. A trunk full of land-scrip proves a bone of contention and Taisie's own attractions very nearly wreck things at various times?for far too many people are anxious to marry her. The actions of McMasters often seem very strange?can it be that he is a traitor and in league with her enemies? Of course...
...literally broke" to which our correspondent refers was based on the fact that Chicago's supply of quick assets and cash is so depleted that; she has resorted to paying municipal employees in scrip. "Per capita debt" seems to mean nothing without taking into account the resources per capita. We do not know who is the authority for Mr. Davis's statement that chicago municipal bonds are selling six points higher than Victory Bonds. The latter closed last week at 96, 06, while inquiry from three of the largest municipal bond houses in Boston shows that four per cent bonds...