Word: dime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HOUSE OF BEADLE AND ADAMS AND ITS DIME AND NICKEL NOVELS (2 vols., 919 pp.)-Albert Johannsen-Universify of Oklahoma...
...classics a century ago knew exactly how well-bred young heroines felt in the presence of general mayhem-so long as it was perpetrated by the hero. The reader felt the same way himself and he loved it. He loved it so much that a new literary form, the dime novel, was created in his mental image, and a great publishing industry was built to produce it. At the head of the industry during the early years stood the house of Beadle and Adams. The history of that house and its publications is the year's choicest chunk...
Trademark of Infamy. The first dime novel that really cost a dime was published by Beadle in 1860. Malaeska; The Indian Wife of the White Hunter came out in the yellowback that was to become the trademark of infamy to U.S. parents. A few months later came Edward S. Ellis' Seth Jones; or, The Captives of the Frontier which sold like dollar bills, 40,000 copies in the first few weeks...
People sells for a dime, will come out fortnightly in twelve test cities. The first issue carried no ads, featured a haggard Faye Emerson on the cover, and an assortment of international bosoms inside, plus pictures and paragraphs on personalities from Ike Eisenhower to "two charming gorillas from West Africa." Commented Quick's Gardner Cowles, after a quick look at People: "Very interesting...
Nebraska's Senator Kenneth Wherry earned some unexpected pocket money as a guide when he showed 14 women from his home state around the Capitol building. As a joke, each of the women pressed a dime into his hand at the end of the tour. Wherry blushed, stammered and tried to return the money, but the giggling ladies would have none of it. The Senator sent the $1.40 along to the Nebraska Cancer Society...