Word: dime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the New York Herald Tribune raised the price of its Sunday paper to 15? ten months ago, the New York Times doggedly stuck to a dime. This week, the Times lost the fight to rising paper and production costs. It reluctantly raised its newsstand price...
Astute, bespectacled Jacob ("Jack") Kapp bought an armful of children's small-sized records at the dime store to try on one of the three phonographs in his house. His three-year-old daughter Myra didn't like them. So Kapp, who is president of Decca Records. Inc., recorded a group of Mother Goose stories just for Myra, on standard-size discs. Myra liked them so much that Kapp put the records on sale...
Hideout. In Detroit, the FBI quickly found Navy Deserter George Kovick, who was blowing plastic bubbles in a five-&-dime store window...
Hepcat Hurdle. On the West Coast, some jukebox operators upped their price to 10? a record. In San Francisco, Jukebox King Jack Ehrlich reported some resistance to dime-a-record, three-for-a-quarter players. But in San Jose the new dime jukeboxes paid for their coin-box alterations in a week, showed a 50% increase in gross take...
...York Sun representative George Trevor also had good words for Kenary--"key man in 1947's attack"--but added "Gifted backs are a dime a dozen at Cambridge, but where is the line to shield those flashy ballcarriers...