Word: dime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ambassador W. Averell Harriman and successors were assured of an imposing domicile. For a permanent home for Ambassadors in London, the U.S. accepted a gift from dime-store Heiress Barbara Hutton: the Georgian-Colonial-style pile she built in Regent's Park ten years ago. (". . . thoughtful of you," wrote Harry Truman to Heiress Hutton.) With it went 14 acres of lawn and garden. Among the conveniences: an indoor swimming pool, a gym, a servants' playroom, gold-plated bathroom taps, a nursery with two toilets...
...could go into Thompson's and get two eggs, toast and a cup of scalding black coffee for 15?. Now it costs you 35?. Two sinkers and a cup of coffee is up from a nickel to 15?. A plate of beef stew used to sell for a dime: now it costs you 30? and it ain't got no meat...
...Bumming is tough. You just can't go up and ask a man for a dime: he knows you can't get nothin' for a dime any more. Trouble is there are too many jobs offered along Madison Street. The railroads are doing everything except promising vice-presidencies. You can get 84?an hour with $1.50 a day for board and room, plus transportation from West Madison Street to wherever the gandy-dancing job is. But the railroad employment offices on West Madison Street don't get any more men today than they did before...
Interest & Principal. In Kansas City, George Walling, hunting for a dime in the Union Bus Terminal, lost his wallet containing...
...twenties. That strike was won, the inflationary spree was halted and prices levelled off. It could be won again. Last week, a group of school children in a Middle Western town conducted a strike against the corner drugstore because the druggist had upped "cokes" from a nickel to a dime. After three days, the druggist capitulated and the price reverted to a nickel...