Word: scrip
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Desert Claim. It was so fantastic that nobody would have given the scheme a second thought if Cord's once-magic name hadn't been attached to it. Even at that, it sounded like moonshine. Cord had discovered that land "scrip" certificates authorized by Congress as long as a century ago to deserving U.S. citizens are still available. There are three types of federal land scrip.* All entitle the holders to stake claims on unoccupied public land, most of which now is on mountaintops, deserts, etc. There is no doubt that the scrip is still good for some...
...Wall Street (socalled because of the log wall that peg-legged Peter Stuyvesant had built) was a natural site for trading: near the docks at its foot, there had long been a slave market. There, in 1790, when the first U.S. Congress voted "public stock" to redeem the Continental scrip which had financed the Revolution, a lively trade in the U.S. "stock" sprang...
...Atlanta's easy-credit Rich's Inc., busiest department store in the South (last year's sales: $42,000,000); of a heart attack; in Atlanta. Publicity-minded Merchant Rich attracted attention in the depression by proposing that Atlanta's teachers be paid in scrip (to be honored at his store, later redeemed by the city), sold $645,000 worth of goods, gained Atlanta's gratitude...
...apostolic humility, by austerity. Zeal must be met by zeal, humility by humility, false sanctity by real sanctity, preaching falsehood by preaching truth. Sow the good seed as the heretics sow the bad. Cast off those sumptuous robes. Send away those brightly caparisoned palfreys. Go barefoot, without purse or scrip, like the apostles...
...possibilities of a simple plot with one lecher, two merry wives, and one jealous husband would not strain the imagination of even the Old Howard's scrip writer. What Shakespeare does with it is refreshing diversion from his weightier masterpieces which stimone's brain and prod one's soul...