Word: coins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coin-Operated Mattress. In Denver, the Gyramatic Co. began sale of a plug-in gyrating mattress for use in hotels. By depositing 25? in a coin slot, the weary traveler gets 30 minutes of soothing movement, which is supposed to quiet nerves, massage away aches & pains and bring sleep. Price...
Knowingly, they seized huge canvas bags, dragged them out to the truck. Some of the bags contained bonds, but most were filled with 20, 10, 5, 2, and 1 dollar bills; they scooped coin from the safe. Police estimate their loot weighed 1225 pounds, taking more than 20 minutes to load into the truck. About 7:10 p.m. the truck roared off, and one of the employees managed to sound an alarm. Then started the largest police mobilization in Boston history; every bridge leading in and out of Boston was closed, F.B.I. men checked plane schedules, state police road-blocked...
...decision was final and official. Philip himself was said to have been especially pleased at the girlish look of his wife in the design on the coin, and the stamp portrait (taken from a recent photograph) was specially chosen, according to Postmaster General Earl de la Warr, "to indicate our pride in having a young Queen." But all this did not prevent Britain's man (and woman) in the street from exercising his ancient prerogative of free criticism...
Most of the darts were aimed at the prizewinning coin design by 71-year-old Sculptress Mary Gillick. "Absurd to do that with the poor girl," sniffed one Londoner of Mrs. Gillick's work. "Made her look like a schoolgirl and she's really quite regal." Others objected to the sculptured royal nose and the laurel-wreathed, bun-backed hairdo. "Not a good likeness, as far as I can judge," humphed famed non-likeness-making Sculptor Epstein. "Look what they've done to our Queen," piped one shrill critic. "Made her neck too long." "I should...
...banned in India since 1829; today it occurs rarely and then only in inaccessible villages in backward regions. No one had expected to see the rite performed in the large, well-kept Rajasthan capital of Jaipur (pop. 175,000). One day last week Shroff Ballabhdas, a prosperous banker and coin appraiser of Jaipur, died. His fair and dainty widow Chhimi, 35, mother of five children, put on her many jewels, donned her finest mauve silk sari and announced that she would throw herself on her husband's pyre...