Word: coins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increase in the call rates of coin operated phones from five to ten cents was requested yesterday by the New England Telephone Company in a public hearing of the Massachusetts Utilities Commission...
...same time that the company sought the five cent coin-phone rate increase, spokesmen requested a temporary two and one half cent general rate increase to offset any losses incurred in the eight-month period necessary to make the coin-box changeover...
Installed in the basement of Richards Hall, the coin-operated machines will be available to students between the hours of 2 and 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday at which time an attendant will be present...
...craftsman, the medalist, has gone the job of commemorating history's great events and famous men. The result, when an artist like Benvenuto Cellini went to work, was often a miniature masterpiece. In Madrid last week the Spanish government staged a sweeping show of 2,000 years of coin and medal-making and, with exhibits from 42 countries, took stock of the modern medalist...
...conclusion: in an age when most other arts have been going through revolutionary experiment, the medalists have been standing remarkably pat. Athletes, warriors, profiles of the great and near-great, eagles, lions and horses are still the favorite subjects. There is scant difference in style between a 16th Century coin likeness of Philip II of Spain and modern U.S. medallions of Henry Ford and Harry Truman. Among the most venturesome artists in the Madrid show were the Italians, and the venturesomeness was rewarded. Filippo Sgarlata's mildly impressionistic discs of hunters and shepherds won Madrid's first prize...