Word: dime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate. They raised some $25,000 for his campaign against Democrat Helen Gahagan Douglas. "After he was elected," explained a fund member, "we wanted him to continue what we all looked on as a kind of California crusade for good government. Dick didn't have a dime of his own. So this fund was set up to cover his extraordinary expenses outside his office. Dick never got a nickel of it for personal use. And we were most careful to screen the contributors. We didn't want anybody contributing who might use the fact as a lever...
Unfortunately the co-feature is handicapped by a dime store Western plot and some barnyard acting. Instead of rustling horses, the villain bootlegs ivory. Ivory Hunters has a saving feature, though, because it was shot in the heart of East Africa, and this is one movie where excellent color photography overrides some glaring inadequacies. After all, it isn't every day that you get a chance to see oaks, gazelles, jungle babies, and rhodesian ridgebacks in action...
Grocery supermarkets stole a leaf from the dime stores when they began stocking their shelves with such traditional dime-store items as buttons, cosmetics and toothpaste. Last week, the nation's biggest dime-store chain snatched back. Near Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town, an apartment-city of some 26,000 inhabitants, F. W. Woolworth opened a self-service store where shoppers picked prepriced wares from clerkless counters, supermarket fashion, toted them in fabric baskets to wrapping and checkout counters. Customers seemed to like it, said they saved time by not having to wait for a salesgirl. Woolworth, which finds...
Manhattan's Samuel H. Kress Foundation, which is in the process of giving half the dime store magnate's collection of art treasures to some 20 U.S. cities (the National Gallery got the other half), unveiled two gifts to the Northwest...
...early '20s, a tough little boy hung by his fingers from a tenement cornice, five stories above a littered Bronx street. Leaning on their window sills, Jules Garfinkle's neighbors gawked and gasped. Jules pulled himself back up on the roof and proudly collected his dime bet. Except for fighting in the streets, he liked nothing better than making easy money by showing...