Word: coined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salesman. When he went down to his Detroit haberdashery one day when it was closed, Louis Dean Kilgore had trouble shaking off the window shoppers who wanted to follow him in. Disturbed over the business he was obviously losing in off-hours, "Red" Kilgore last week set up a coin-operated salesman in his front window. By inserting a quarter in it, an off-hour window shopper can verbally order any item on display, have his name, address and phone number recorded on a tape inside. Next morning, store clerks transcribe the tape, recheck with customers by phone, and send...
...cost him 11? to ride on the Fifth Avenue line, 6? on other privately owned lines, 7? on city-owned lines. On some buses he put the extra penny (or pennies) in the coin box, on some he handed it to the driver, on others he dropped it in a special tray. He paid 6? to transfer to the subway from a private line, 5? from a city line, and could not transfer to the subway at all from the Fifth Avenue line. For a transfer from a subway (10?) to a bus, he paid...
...boiled a ground squirrel shot by Kastner. It made one meal. Then Scalise found mushrooms and boiled them. Custer was sure they were poisonous, but Scalise dropped a silver coin into the brew and when it stayed shiny, instead of turning black, Custer was satisfied. Scalise shot a porcupine. Says Custer: "It was a lovely dish-we had it for days...
With the two-platoon system in operation, Saturday's starting line-up depends on the toss of the coin, but assuming the Crimson will receive, the following line-up will probably go into effect as of 2:30 p.m. Saturday...
...visits to Russia, one with his parents and Bernard Shaw, he had his eyes opened to the Communist side of the coin. The Soviet system did not measure up to his standards of liberty. "I was anti-Russian," he says, "even before it was fashionable to be anti-Russian." Astor worked in a Glasgow factory and a London bank before becoming a junior reporter on the Yorkshire Post. In 1945, demobbed as a captain in the Royal Marines (with the Croix de Guerre), Astor joined the family's Observer as foreign editor. He is a hard-working boss...