Word: dime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dime. If any of this evidence ruffled Democrat May, he did not show it -at least not at first. His defense was ingeniously simple. He was just trying to help the war effort along by helping the Garssons-as he had helped many another war contractor. The checks and cash, he said, were just "campaign contributions," proceeds of private business transactions, funds to pay off notes he had signed to help the Garssons get a little ready cash. He had never made a dime out of the Cumberland Lumber Co. He had posed as Cumberland's owner, he said...
...invented one. Dime-sized, it featured a cerulean teardrop oozing from a dark blue morning-glory. Around its edges, in gold and blue, were the words: "WAR MEMORIAL AWARD." In her hotel room, Mom wrote a poem to go with...
Winchell's chin-chopper column is the chief attraction of a curious new daily paper, the U.S. Journal, which made its first appearance this week. The Journal is about the size, shape and glossiness of Vogue but has only eight pages, costs a dime, and expects to break even if it sells only 10,000 copies. It is edited by Edward Maher, until recently the editor of Liberty. Maher hopes to cram the Journal with backdoor stuff, chitchat and personality stories. Says he: "When the other papers are covering 'big' developments, we'll be working behind...
Died. John Ray Sinnock, 58, chief engraver of the U.S. Mint, designer of the Roosevelt dime and the Purple Heart Medal; of a brain tumor; in Staten Island. Wags have peddled the rumor that the artist's initials, a microscopic "JS" on the new 10? piece, stood for Joseph Stalin...
...Paris Herald (for black-market quotations). Lunch at the hotel was usually risotto with meat, salad, wine, pastry, fruit, coffee. After a two-hour siesta, a walk to the Marina Piccolo to swim off the steep rocks, then back to the piazza to drink iced vermouth (70 lire, one dime,). Then dinner at the hotel (veal scaloppine, salad, spaghetti, bread, butter, cheese, wine, coffee, pastry). An evening for two at one of the small nightclubs-and a ride home in a carriage-cost...