Word: scrip
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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...
Rich's sold $645,000 worth of goods for scrip. It eventually got its money jack-along with the gratitude of Atlantans. Last week this policy of "What's good for Atlanta is good for Rich's" paid a big dividend. President Rich proudly announced that Rich's had grossed $33,100,000 last year, had become the largest department store in the South...
...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...