Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kelso: the $108,600 Jockey Club Gold Cup, for the fifth straight year, by five laughable lengths at New York's Aqueduct race track. Clipping one-fifth of a second from the U.S. two-mile record he set when he was three...
...cup long ago ran over...
...machines. Many small operators dropped out, unable to compete for locations or cough up $2,000 for a single, modern coffee dispenser. In the last five years, 400 mergers have taken place. Meanwhile new mechanical marvels have lured more nickels and dimes. Coffee, the most profitable product (2.8 billion cups last year), percolated higher sales and earnings with the introduction of single-cup, variable-strength mixers. Soft drinks in cups, an impulse purchase, boomed with the introduction of cracked ice to the machines. Cigarettes, the largest sales item (4.2 billion packs last year from 863,000 machines), actually gained from...
Fate Is the Hunter. Consolidated Airlines' Flight 22 lifts off the runway on a routine hop to Seattle. Pilot Rod Taylor takes a cup of coffee from Stewardess Suzanne Pleshette, trades a quip or two. Suddenly a bell clangs in the cockpit, a light blinks a warning on the control panel. "Engine blew," snaps Taylor. In two-engine-aircraft dramas, troubles never come singly. The tower reports three other planes blocking the path back to the strip. The radio goes dead. And of course Engine No. 2 conks out. Flight 22 crash-lands on a deserted beach, bellies safely...
...tubes that contain a seven-day supply of such items as hair spray and shaving cream for travelers, is spinning out a line of two-tone scented toilet tissue and conducting a campaign to replace "the dirtiest thing in the American home-the bathroom glass" with its plastic paper-cup dispenser...