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Show QOLD BRICKS HIQHER Inflation Hits Swindler, Victims Inflation has hit the swindler and his victims, just like everybody else in the postwar world. Cost of being rooked by various popular frauds and rackets has gone up in proportion to the rise in the swindlers' livmg costs, a report by the family economics bureau of Northwestern National Life Insurance Insur-ance company reveals. Professional charity solicitors, who take 50 to 60 per cent of the public's pub-lic's donations before turning over the balance to the organization in whose name they operate, now boldly bold-ly ask donations of $10 to $25 instead of the $2 to $5 at prewar scale. Their "benefit dance" tickets now cost $2 each, often more, sgainst 50 cents to a dollar in prewar days. |