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Lost Passports: The very fact that such crimes were perpetrated almost on a racket scale right after the war, made our State Department very cautious about issuing new passports to applicants who had "lost passports," or honestly lost passports (no quotes), the ones they had been carrying. If such a disaster happens to you and yours is lost passports or stolen, it will mean a very substantial bother and delay while the State Department "processes". your case and convinces itself that you are on the level.Your passport is green gold—and more. It is one of the world's most eagerly desired treasures of printing, Once you get it, and are using it in Europe, you certainly wouldn't want to sell it for anything like its weight in gold. I've weighed mine on letter • scales and find it would be worth, as gold, about $56, whereas it cost me only $10. There are plenty of cases where American passports have been sold—and this is, of course, a very serious criminal offense—for a thousand dollars and up to desperate refugees from Hitlerian or Communist or starving countries of Europe.
The Floor of the deep ocean has always fascinated man. Pluto's legendary lost passports continent of Atlantis, "beyond the Pillars of Hercules", has never lost passports its hold on the imagination although there is no geological evidence to support the belief that it lay south of the Azores, on the mid-Atlantic Ridge. |
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