Word: coin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be different," said Arkansas' John McClellan as he gaveled his Senate labor-racketeering committee into session last week, but "the basic, underlying methods of operation will be greatly similar." McClellan expected to prove during a four-week investigation of the nation's $2 billion-a-year coin-machine industry that: 1) organized thugs are successfully moving in on big-city coin-machine operations, especially in the jukebox business and in pinball games; 2) principal tool of the thugs is the corrupt labor union, endowed with all the protection extended by law to legitimate labor. Said McClellan...
...Abraham Gilbert, onetime vice president of a local of a repairmen and electrical workers union, said that coin-machine employees make "very good wages" and need no union. Actually, said he, the operators' association needed the union to scare competitors away with picketing. For that reason the association paid dues and union expenses...
Legendary Grandfather. In 1815 Europeans began penetrating the thick forests of Guinea, which was to give its name to a coin of purest gold, a kind of grass, and a species of hen. Among them was a young Frenchman named René Caillé, who, dressed as an Arab, talked of his captivity by the Egyptians, was accepted as a Moslem and was able to make his famed journey safely to Timbuktu. After him other Frenchmen came, and eventually, by the "rules of the game,"*laid down by the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 for spreading civilization throughout darkest Africa...
...triumphal tour to Caracas a fortnight ago, Castro sent Venezuelans into wild spasms of cheers when he told them: "Everywhere I hear the chant 'Trujillo next! Trujillo next!'" At Caracas' Central University, Castro himself tossed the first coin into a hat to launch a drive for $300,000 to start an invasion. Only 155 miles away from Trujilloland, bearded members of Castro's 26th of July Movement are already gazing longingly at maps showing the Dominican Republic's Cordillera Central, a forest region much like Cuba's Sierra Maestra. As Dominican exiles plot...
S.P.Q.-Hour. In Miami Beach, a 1,600-year-old Roman coin was collected from a parking meter...