Word: dime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peak of 2,700,000-second in the weekly field. It now claims only 1,400,000 -down over half a million from last year and its guarantee has been reduced all the way to 1,100,000. Ever since it upped its price from a nickel to a dime in April, following the Satevepost's lead, Liberty's sales have been sharply off-its subscriptions have not had time to be affected materially, but newsstand sales have dropped almost one-third and boy sales over 60%. Advertising revenue, always slim, dropped 50% in a year...
...national ten per cent war-bond purchase goal is being rapidly realized, but here at Harvard attempts to reach that percentage have so far proved almost farcical. An average of a dime per man a week stands in glaring contrast to the student's income, and there has been little evidence of any considerable increase in purchases over the past few weeks...
...greater maneuverability, since the boat can be stopped on a dime, turned on a quarter. Hitherto, variable pitch propellers have not been practical for any boat larger than small launches...
Champagne in Portland. Nearly 50,000 men now earn $45-$115 a week in the shipyards at Portland, Ore. Nearby taverns do land-office business cashing shipworkers' checks on Thursday (for a dime or 20? fee), then selling them beer and the privilege of playing pinball machines. The Idle Hour Billiard Parlor cashes so many checks that it has installed a bullet-proof booth, with armed guards standing...
...category of the minority. You can't make Ham Fishes out of everybody in Congress. It's true before the war there was a hell of a lot of politics and backbiting, but don't forget this-the President got every bill and every damned dime that he asked for, and it always took a majority of Congress to give...