Word: coin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slight, earnest 26-year-old. A Methodist preacher, he wears a clerical collar, partly because he considers himself a "high" Methodist, partly as a badge of authority which his boys respect. He inherited Landhaven's 60 acres in Maine from his father, a wealthy farmer and businessman in Coin, Iowa. Young Millen had planned a school built to his own specifications ever since his own unsatisfying prep-school days. After Harvard ('42), he got three other well-to-do Harvard-men so fired with his ideas that they agreed to take jobs as masters-at no salary...
...horde of mechanics charged into New York's 520 subway and elevated stations, changed the coin slots of 3,390 turnstiles and simultaneously ended an era. After 44 years of riding the subways for a nickel, New Yorkers started paying a dime...
Fighting Trim. Fuller's 7,300 dealers buy their stock; their profit (average take: $70 a week) depends on their own initiative. Fuller men have delivered babies, rushed stricken customers to hospitals; one saved a child from strangulation by slapping its bottom until the coin she had swallowed was coughed up. Unlike the Fuller Brush man hero in the current Red Skelton film, no Fuller dealer has ever been suspected of murder, and despite legend, his erotic adventures...
...stop program. Sporadically entertained by the Glee Club and the Band, the 1800 also were serenaded by assorted other musicians including a troop of Scotch bagpipers, an accordion player and an organ grinder with an aging monkey. Bobby, the monk, who winters in the Square, drew plaudits and coin as he entwined his tail around bare ankles...
...booth after booth, shapely models were mechanically whacked, pounded and rolled about. Among the exhibits: a coin-operated (50?), bedlike "Massage-O-Mat" for pummeling the body; a "Mac-Levy Leg Massager" for streamlining legs and thighs; chairs called "Gyro-Lators," with vibrating cushions and foot rests to slim down hips and titillate the soles of the feet. The beauticians had a deep interest in the new machines. They needed some tasty bait to get back the business they had lost through a revolution in the trade...