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...basic idea was to set up a notion counter displaying securities for every purse and taste-transfera-ble bonds for banks, temporarily nontransferable ones for insurance companies, permanently nontransferable ones for individuals; stamps for 10?, bonds for $10,000. The catch in the scheme was how to keep up a steady selling rate of $2 billions a month. The great banks and insurance companies, few in number, buy in huge blocks up to $100 millions at a time; then they sit back and wait for new funds to accumulate. But if sales of war bonds are to be no more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INFLATION: Voluntary Henry | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

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