Word: dime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shows in the number of B-52s in service because of the inevitable lead-time between order and delivery on everything from raw materials to electronic equipment. Said a Boeing engineer: "A lot of heavy forgings go into a B-52, and forging presses still aren't a dime a dozen...
Aging Hungarian Temptress (turned Manhattan jeweler) Jolie Gabor sadly announced the disengagement of her daughter, heartbreaking Cinemactress Zsa Zsa Gabor, from heartbreaking Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, freshly disengaged from his fourth wife, Five and Dime Heiress Barbara Hutton. In tragic tones, Mama Gabor explained: "In Paris now they are having their last farewell. She can't marry Rubi, the darling boy, because he's so jealous." Then Mama grew more plausible: "Zsa Zsa will be a very big shot in Hollywood and in television. She would have to give that up to marry Rubi." Earlier in the week...
Divorced. Barbara Hutton, 42, five-and-dime millionairess who likes to stay indoors all day; by Porfirio Rubirosa, 46, Dominican playboy who likes the outdoors; after 16 months of marriage (all but 77 days of it in separation); on grounds of incompatibility; in Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic...
...assorted fiends and zombie doctors, was sent to a state hospital as a drug addict. Now 72, and looking as poorly as any makeup man ever painted him. Lugosi asked to be committed, admitting he had been using narcotics for 20 years. "I don't have a dime left," he said. "I am dependent on my friends for food...
...popular song of the 1920's had been "My God, How the Money Rolls In." After 1929, "Brother Can You Spare a Dime?" and "Sing Me a Song of Social Significance" took its place. When the economic system collapsed before those who had criticized it during the 1920's, they needed only a reasonable alternative to alienate themselves from it. They were convinced that something must be done. Seven million college-age young people were unemployed. Teachers were being fired; low salaries were being cut still further. Capitalism seemed on the rocks. And it appeared that only the Communist party...