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Merrill Lynch offered the first couponless notes under the name Treasury Investment Growth Receipts (TIGRs) in August 1982. The copycats quickly followed. The same week Lehman Bros, marketed Lehman Investment Opportunity Notes (LIONS), and the next month Salomon Bros, offered its Certificate of Accrual on Treasury Securities (CATS...
...Harry S. Truman was all set to be added to Mme. Tussaud's waxworks in London. All that was lacking was a suit of clothes, hinted clothes-couponless Mme. Tussaud's to the U.S. Embassy. Explained the waxworks management: "We cannot show them without clothes...
...Curb crawlers" (fences) ferried stolen goods out to the suburbs, sold them, couponless, to housewives. A woman reported to the police that she was offered a pony coat for ?16 (half the store price) by a woman black-market agent who had about 20 fur coats in the back of her limousine. Other gangs thrived on door-to-door selling in apartment buildings. A laundry collector had a lively sideline in silk stockings...