Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome. From 1916 to 1925 he was too busy to hold a one-man show, to act Bohemian. He won nearly every U. S. prize for sculpture, every commission he competed for. He speckled the U. S. with his expensive marbles and bronzes, every one slick as a new dime. Hard work cast him like one of his bronzes into a chunky man with a bullet head and a military mustache. He joined the Social Register, Manhattan's Century and Coffee House Clubs. Earning some $60,000 a year, he lived in solid style. He worked in a sack...
...money-raising, 1? worth of publicity equals $1 worth of donations. The Protestant Episcopal Church of the Epiphany in Providence, R. I. was getting publicity last week by "laying a mile of dimes." To raise money for a new altar and reredos, every parishioner pledged at least 17 dimes, representing one foot (a dime is 11/16 in. in diameter). Should the full mile of dimes be obtained, Providence's Church of the Epiphany would...
...credit. In Midland, big Dow Chemical Co. coined magnesium into "Dowmetal money" with a specified value of 20?. The City of Detroit went into technical default, its bonds slumped badly. But Michigan stayed cheerful. It was considered funny to sing to your friends "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime...
...suggested reduction, Hearstpapers declared, would amount to settling with Britain for roughly ''a dime on the dollar" of her 1933 agreement to pay the U. S. some $11,000.000,000 over 62 years. Since Germany's Reparations debt to the Allies was scaled down, provisionally, at Lausanne at 1? on the $1 Britons were shocked by U. S. scorn of a dime...
...impair the health of its donor, who is still alive and in the best of condition. Also contained in the exhibit are "Galileo," the smallest book printed from movable type, and the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khaiyam," the tiniest volume ever printed. The latter, about half the size of a dime, was produced by a special photo-reducing process; the only other extant copy of it resides in the British Museum...