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Credit card mania?

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Back in 1958, Bank of America invented a new device- the consumer credit card.  Called- whaddayathink?- the BankAmericard.  Over the next dozen years, it managed to get other banks to join in their offering.  And over those 12 years, these banks mass mailed credit cards to folks in zip codes they thought would make them money from the fees they charged for using credit.

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