Word: coin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large, Marshal Tito's land has no use for coin or currency, store or tavern. The people barter. "My dollars," wrote Pribichevich, "are just dirty pieces of paper...
This week we put in our preference lists of billets, which presented quite a problem. One of our classmates was undecided between requesting U. S. shore duty or a destroyer. We finally agreed to put it to a coin-fipping test, heads for shore duty, tails for destroyer. It took him four flips before heads came up! Another one of our friends requested destroyer duty and felt happy about it until he saw that picture of a pitching lincan at Potter this week. He's been scasick ever since...
...R.A.F. raid over Berlin last week; only two came back. "Missing in action": 1) slim, 23-year-old Lowell Bennett of the International News Service, who was to write an eyewitness account of the raid for all three U.S. press associations, and who got the assignment by flipping a coin with a colleague; 2) New Zealander Norman Stockton, representing an Australian newspaper service, 3) a British correspondent whose identity was temporarily withheld...
...Coin of Victory? The Financial News discussed comparative British and American sacrifices and expenditures during the war, and reached the terse conclusion: "The only coin in which America can expect to be repaid for Lend-Lease is victory...
Suffering from one of the worst creative slumps in years, Broadway is enjoying one of the greatest box-office booms in history. Packing the theaters are coin-heavy, gas-rationed Manhattan escapists, droves of visiting defense workers hell-bent to spend their mill-gotten gains. The critics, bidding the waves of hogwash recede, are often in a class with Canute. In the past month most critics have trounced Frederick Lonsdale's Another Love Story, Lou Walters' Artists and Models, Gypsy Rose Lee's The Naked Genius (which even the author held her nose at), Rose Franken...