Word: scrip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...depression, Atlanta had no money to pay its schoolteachers, so city officials went to Walter Henry Rich, president of Rich's Inc., to ask him what to do. He old them: "Pay your teachers with scrip. We'll honor...
...crack picker can make $22 a day), there were still not enough of them when the harvest started. The Government sent in 1,000 German prisoners of war, from the late Marshal Rommel's Afrika Korps. The P.O.W.s lived in special camps, were paid 80? a day in scrip if they met the easy standard of 65 boxes...
...invading army came prepared for everything, bringing its own scrip, its own doctors and nurses, its own whores...
...customary rudeness. French authorities ordered the destruction of abandoned pets to prevent hydrophobia. Food shortage became acute and decrees restricting the use of flour for pastry, and forbidding the serving of butter in restaurants were issued. Money was scarce as banks remained closed and there was talk of municipal scrip being issued. With over 1,200,000 persons jobless in the Paris area alone, and soldiers and refugees returning by the thousand, the economic situation threatened to become more alarming than the political...
...paper also outlined a plan to pay 10% of the wages of German workers in "promissory notes"-i.e., scrip. Half of it would go into savings banks for "investment" in war loans, half would be "lent" directly to the State's health and insurance agencies. In effect it would amount to an extra income...