'■ Au eminent' London accountant; who deals with more' than £5.000.f1d0 every week, recently found himself a penny short. He wetit in search of it. Had he. added up a stray fly's leg in a column of figures ? .Was it an error of simpJe addition? Was there a hole in the petty cash drawer? H&d'soineone used a pep ny sfca rnpa nd forgotten about it? ■ No.- for two .'days - and one night .the staff battled with , those millions, and it was found: that* bad-ly-written figure "2" had been mistaken for "3." '
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19888, 27 March 1930, Page 13
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