Word: coin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nervously lighter side to the grim picture came yesterday from tales of escapes from the Grove. Many students, came close to being there, only to to miss at the last moment. Most amazing was the man who flipped a coin for the Grove or another spot. The coin said "Cocoaunt" but his date insisted on two out of three, and they missed fate. A Freshman, told he was too young to be served liquer, left petulantly five minutes before the fiame burst...
...dresses; $18.50 for $4.50 shoes; $100 rent for $30 apartments; $3.95 for $1.25 hose; $2.95 for 50? cosmetics. The younger generation don't believe us when we tell them we realize we were fools to do it. They jingle big money in their pockets and coin purses, and look around for something expensive to buy, something they never felt they could afford before. We thought the big money came our way just because we were smart. So now the younger generation are so much smarter than we were 25 years ago that we can't tell them anything...
...Haugland flipped a coin with an Australian correspondent for a seat on an outgoing U.S. Army bomber. The A.P. man won. The plane used up its gasoline bucking a tropical storm; Haugland and the crew bailed out at 13,000 feet. Eight days later two of the crew reached Port Moresby. Within 20 days all but Haugland and the navigator had straggled...
...average citizen, this sharp rise in cash has the Treasury Department worried. For one thing, nobody knows where all the money goes after it leaves the mint. Best official guesses: 1) into bigger payrolls, including the huge all-cash soldier pay; 2) into a new crop of coin-operating devices; 3) into hoarding...
...will also save a lot of headaches for the U.S. Treasury, which has worked on nickel-less nickels for almost a year. Last February a 50% silver-50% copper nickel was tested, wouldn't go down most coin-operated machines. The new nickels work fine...