Word: dime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slot machines now clank in remote service stations. There are few towns so small that a housewife cannot take a pass at the dice for a dime. In Las Vegas and Reno, divorcees, cowhands, tourists and plain citizens crowd plush palaces where roulette wheels whir and stacked silver dollars gleam on green tables. Gamblers are Nevada's new bonanza kings. Wilbur ("Little Caesar") Clark, 37-year-old operator of Las Vegas' gaudy new Monte Carlo Casino, had only $2,200 in 1941. Now he owns a gambling palace, a hotel, four cocktail bars and two cardrooms; is part...
Thrills were a dime a dozen last Tuesday at the Indoor Athletic Building, as Company C and Standish wound up the intramural basketball season by splitting a double bill, with the civilians copping the all-important nightcap playoff...
...most ardent brother-keeper. Every year U.S. citizens give away some $2,000,000,000. But they do not do it offhandedly. They have to be scouted, charted and carefully flattered. And they prefer to believe that all giving, however large or complicated, is as spontaneous as a dime for coffee...
...hovers on the edge of panic. Resolving to be cool and sensible, Wanley commits every blunder in the books. With the body crumpled in the back of his car he very nearly gets arrested for driving through a red light. At the parkway tollgate he manages to drop his dime in the road. As he fumbles for another coin the tollkeeper pokes and pries about the car, helpfully looking for the lost coin...
...super dime novel complete with spies and a beautiful adventuress, refugee-Author Heym (now with the psychological warfare division of the Army) pictures the power-poker played by Axis and Allies in North Africa. The most interesting character is Darlan-like Monaitre, who offers his troops to the highest bidder. Although the elements are similar, the effect is less striking than the author's Hostages...