Word: coin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Copper Boom. In Indianola, Miss., a restaurateur offered to sell a cup of coffee for an out-of-date Indianhead penny, discovered that a local coin collector had 2,000 of them for sale at three for a nickel...
...will be ready to play against Yale. Harlow, however, has not yet decided which of his two right ends will start. Morgan and Don Forte are still on even terms, and the race is so close that Harlow is actually thinking of, deciding it by the toss of a coin...
...This week is Phonographs-for-Defense Week. Urged on by the U.S. Treasury Department, juke-box makers and operators tried to get Irving Berlin's promotional song, Any Bonds Today?, into the No. 1 spot in every one of the 300,000 coin phonographs of the land. The song (sung by Barry Wood for Victor, played by Kay Kyser for Columbia) is owned by the Treasury Department. A preliminary test in 5,000 Detroit juke boxes upped defense-bond sales in the area...
...rating to buy illegally 6,075 Ib. of aluminum scrap from Milwaukee Scrap Metal Co., 19,530 Ib. from Brodey Brothers; and of illegally selling for non-defense uses 2,739 Ib. of aluminum to Farnsworth Telephone & Radio Co. (jukebox castings), 8,787 Ib. to 0. D. Jennings Co. (coin machines), 17,199 Ib. to Mills Novelty Co. (coin machines), 5,613 Ib. to Haywood Wakefield Co. (railroad-coach seat parts), 3,962 Ib. to Eastman Kodak Co. (Kodak parts), 3,149 Ib. to Filtex Corp. (vacuum-cleaner castings...
Social Security, in its present form, is a coin with several faces. The only part of the program which is wholly administered by the Federal Government is the old-age insurance fund, which now covers about 40,000,000 workers in organized industry. Employe and employer each contribute 1% of the worker's pay to this fund...