Word: coin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shook two giant branches of the amusement industry. He told the American Federation of Musicians convention in Dallas, Tex. that union musicians will be forbidden to make records for juke boxes or radio shows after Aug. 1. If carried out, this order would be a body blow to the coin-machine business, a serious problem to smaller radio stations...
...memory of Professor Barrett Wendell '77, the first chairman of the Committee, is awarded each year to that member of the Sophomore class in this field who has made the most notable progress during the year. The prize this year has been awarded to Roy M. Millen of Coin, Iowa and Eliot House...
...over-inflated legal price of 71.11? per oz. (see p. 73), came up with a new gag last week: a silver "one-bit" piece, worth 12½?. The reason they gave was the alleged "danger" that dime-priced articles might soar to 15? for lack of an intermediate coin. Despite the "danger," the Treasury, mindful that eight billion pennies are in circulation, kept cool...
Pocketful of Cash. Men & women who had seldom had one coin to rub against another suddenly heard an unmistakable jingle from their pockets. Girls who had worked as maids for room, board and peanuts found factory jobs at $100-$200 a month. A Manhattan physician's maid quit to move into her own home: her husband, out of work for years, now made $26 a day pouring cement...
...fortnight ago NBC granted network time to labor "as a public service." While William Green and Philip Murray conferred with President Roosevelt one afternoon, their pressagents Pearl and De Caux agreed to alternate programs and to let a coin-toss decide who should begin the series. Green was willing, but Murray was gracious. As they left the White House. Murray said: "You can have it, Bill...