Word: coined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bosses with envy at seeing independent producers (even makers of grade B movies) making more money than they do. One of the highest paid executives in the U.S., Darryl Zanuck was weary of handing over roughly 90% of his earnings to the tax collectors. As an independent, he can coin money in the gravy-train, 25% long-term capital-gains bracket...
...setting any precedents--but only following the lead of its well-respected sister university in the Midwest. Surely the University could spare enough capital to set up the Sam Snead Professorship in Applied Golfing Tactics and the Goren Chair of Whist Certainly these are more useful subjects than coin-collecting (Harvard once had an Honorary Curator of Numismatic Literature...
...City Council yesterday approved Police Chief Patrick F. Ready's suggestion that the meters' coin slots be blocked with holiday good wishes from Dec. 19 through 25. Ready denied that his move purposely coincided with the student exodus, and added that students remaining in Cambridge won't have to pay, either...
...taken to protect Batista wherever he goes, Pearson wrote that the President "had no secret service" at a political rally in central Cuba, "literally fought his way . . . through a sea of admirers." Snorted El Mundo's Editor Raoul Alfonso Gonse: "Pearson saw only one side of the coin...
...Milwaukee merchants got together to set up Downtown Parking Co. Inc. In residential neighborhoods, small lots and garages can ease the problem: Architect Richard Roth, planner of a score of Manhattan's newest office buildings, estimates that a 60-car lot can be made to pay off. With coin-operated gates, automatic devices to stack cars and other new parking machines, garages can bring down handling charges and cut rates...