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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III MORE COLLECTIONS 'PHERE was a door in the middle of the fa9ade of the low brick building; there were two windows on either side of the door. On the left-hand windows was painted in black letters, Egypt Trust Company. On the right-hand windows was painted, T. Britt. There was no legend to indicate what the business of T. Britt might be. None was required. The mere name carried full information for all Egypt. Mr. Britt glanced in at the left-hand windows as he approached the door. Cashier Frank Vaniman was sweeping out. When President Britt of the new Egypt Trust Company went down to a business college in the city in search of a cashier, he quizzed candidates in quest of what he termed foolish notions. Young Mr. Vaniman, who had supported himself ever since he was fourteen years old, and had done about everything in the ten years since then in the way of work, grabbing weeks or months for his schooling when he had a bit of money ahead, passed the test very well, according to Mr. Britt's notion. Young Mr. Vani- man had secured a business education piecemeal, and was a bit late in getting it, but Mr. Britt promptly perceived that the young man had not been hung up by stupidity or sloth. So he hired Vaniman, finding him a strapping chap without foolish notions. Vaniman was cashier, receiving teller, paying teller, swept out, tended the furnace, and kept the books of the bank until Britt hired Vona Harnden for that job. Vona had been teaching school to help out her folks, in the prevailing Egyptian famine in finance. But folks stopped paying taxes, and the town orders by the school committee on the treasurer were not honored; therefore, Vona gratefully took a place in the bank when Mr. Britt called her into his office one day and offered the job to h..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217656412 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217656412 |
| Weight | 0.70 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.48 In |
| List Price | $20.78 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 210 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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