Word: couponing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Widener will function as usual and Lamont in staying open from 8:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday. House libraries, however, will close at noon today. All House dining rooms will close after today's lunch. Residents can eat at the Union and pay with coupon books...
Rudi Bing now thinks of his five years at Glyndebourne as the best of his life. The idyl was shattered by World War II. Glyndebourne shut up shop; Bing went to work in a London department store (Peter Jones in Sloane Square) as a coupon clerk, eventually worked his way up to manager. Technically, he was an enemy alien; he had applied for British citizenship in 1939, but the war had prevented his papers from going through. He was never interned. Moreover, he was able to bring his aging parents from Austria to England...
...ticket at Hamilton to $4.80 per ticket at several. The average charge was $3.60, while Notre Dame merely said that it charged "established rates." Syracuse, Brown, Notre Dame, Hamilton, SMU, and Columbia didn't charge student admission. Al colleges where students paid admission through activity fees or coupon books, the prices ranged from $10 to $25 per entire athletic season. The average seating capacity at the stadiums of the 15 colleges averaged 38,098. Yale bad the biggest capacity, 84,000, and Hamilton the smallest...
...fraction of 10% payable is normally worked out by relating the coupon tonnage, b, issued for the year ended 30th April, 1950, to the acreage of the holding (excluding rough grazings), a, in the fraction b/(a + b). For example, if the coupon tonnage were 9 and the acreage 6, the fraction would be 9/(6+9)= 3/5 and the rate of grant would be 3/5 of 10% = 6%. Where, however, the fraction is less than ¼ i.e., where the rate of grant would be less than 2 and 1/2%, no grant will be paid...
...Examiner, the world's sorry state offered a fine chance to boost circulation. Asked the Examiner last week: "What are you doing to protect your precious personal papers and valuable documents in the event of atomic bombing?" Sure that few Angelenos were doing anything, the Examiner printed a coupon entitling them to get their insurance policies and other documents microfilmed at Examiner headquarters for 25?/ apiece. The Examiner promised, in addition, to deposit one copy safely in a vault in Colorado Springs. One Examiner reader was unimpressed. Said he: "To hell with my insurance policy. I wish they...