Word: dime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, not only Kresge's but Woolworth's and scores of other dime and department stores were selling thousands of 29? and 49? packets, consisting of a pipe and a collapsible tube filled with a plastic called "Bub-O-Loon." In thousands of homes, offices and nightclubs, Americans were huffing & puffing into their hollow sticks...
...Congressmen cross-examined Food Minister John Strachey and were a little annoyed by his air of supercilious serenity. They were more impressed by Sir Stafford Cripps, president of the Board of Trade. Cripps said that Britain was bracing itself to get along without another U.S. dime, if necessary...
...country was also being visited by a plague of annoying and unannounced nickel, dime and dollar jumps in the price of all kinds of small goods and services. Restaurant prices were developing a habit of rising as much as 10? to 50? overnight. Some radio repairmen were charging more to peer into a receiving set than a physician asked for a sick call. It even cost more to go broke-the fee for filing bankruptcy papers in U.S. district courts went up from...
...uniform were a dime a dozen in Halifax during the war years. But for little Minnie Harnish, the meek, blonde daughter of a fisherman, there was only one who counted. He was a big (6 ft. 3 in.) Royal Marine named David Cecil Boyes. Minnie and David met at a party one, night in September 1944, when David had shore leave from H.M.S. Berwick. For Minnie it was love "at first sight." As for David, he loved her "more than the service...
...concerts, very likely the best entertainment in Boston these days, are being given every night except Mondays at 8:30. Every night the range of the music is immense; tonight's program, for example, includes things by Handel and Johann Strauss. To rent a chair costs a dime, but if you're healthy or sensible, or both, you'll pay nothing and lie on the grass...