Word: scrip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presidency of Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., energetic Ralph Damon modernized and standardized American's fleet, which now consists of 50 Douglas "flagships," and has the magnificent operating record of no passenger fatalities since January 1936. High-powered Charles Rheinstrom pepped up American's sales technique, invented airline "scrip," since adopted by the major domestic lines. In advertising, C.R. Smith and his two first lieutenants were equally progressive. One of their headlines: "Fewer Husbandless Nights...
...America's history, he says. "I foresee a day when some Congressmen, not a wildcat but a man grounded in American history, faithful to the memory of John Adams, Jefferson, Van Buren and Lincoln, a man grounded in monetary horse sense and practical national finance will propose stamp scrip as payment for all new government expenditures, and for the payment of such part of their employees' salaries as they normally spend on their current expenses...
...stamp scrip" of the economist Gesell is the money plan which Pound advocates. This would mean a monthly stamp of 1 per cent on the value of the scrip issued by the government, and would do away with taxes and replace them with "taxed money, based on national production," he said...
...Clintonville, Wis. persons unnamed invited contributions of 15? a week for a ''society to give relief to folks hearing about other folks getting from $1 to $50 every week for some darn thing or other. . . ." Instead of issuing scrip, bottle caps, ham & eggs or pension checks, the society would impound all money received until 1940, then send it to the county humane society to care for members of other pension movements who have become "deaf, blind and mentally unbalanced by present political pension persiflage...
...human evolution, but the moon is powerful. It has created a tide in the affairs of men which this year crested in California under the name of "Thirty Dollars Every Thursday," alias "Ham & Eggs." Under this scheme the State would give everyone aged 50 or more $30 of State scrip every Thursday and retire the scrip with a 2? weekly stamp tax on every warrant issued...