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Word: threadless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week its parent department, the U. S. Treasury, announced that the S. S. had gone far toward cleaning them out. An educational campaign directed by hamhanded, sharp-nosed Frank John Wilson, S. S. Chief, has shown thousands of merchants how to distinguish the uneven engraving and threadless paper of counterfeit bills. An 18-minute movie named "Dan gerous Dollars" produced by the S. S., also telecast and made into a Paramount short, has been shown to more than 2,000,000 high-school students, who have been a favorite transmission belt for much counter feit money. Result: losses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CURRENCY: Funny Money | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

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