Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...probosciphone," a small metal device that fits over the nose and on which he can produce a shrill tune by blowing hard. So far neither Mrs. Scott, the former Margaretta Morris, nor anyone else can play the probosciphone which Mr. Scott bought from a street vendor for a dime. Lawyer Scott also enjoys philosophical speculation. He thinks there are "at least 50,000,000 people" who cannot define a "unit." His own definition: "A unit is anything that anybody chooses to consider as such...
...Like Dell, the old woodpulp publishing firm of Street & Smith keeps a weather eye cocked for new fields to enter. Street & Smith's new picture magazine is a large rotogravure publication exclusively devoted to sport. Launched as a monthly for a dime, Pic offers twelve issues for a dollar, presents action shots of current stars like Joe Di Maggio, Joe Louis, Jim Braddock, oldtimers like Annette Kellerman and Hans ("Honus"') Wagner. Idea of Pic came from its business manager, young A. Lawrence Holmes, Princetonian son of S. & S.'s Vice President Artemas Holmes...
...Could you spare a dime...
...terraces. Santa Anita's $50,000 to the 1936 Los Angeles Community Chest was that charity's biggest single contribution. The law allows a track to keep 8% of all mutuel bets and "breakage"-odd nickels and pennies when bets are paid off to a dime. Two years ago the Santa Anita management agreed to take only 6%. Last year, breakage at Santa Anita...
...rewarded by a White House invitation to create the U. S. Secret Service. After the Civil War, Pinkerton resumed his private work, grew rich and famed in the service of pioneering railroads beset by train robbers. But while boyish hearts thumped to the exploits of intrepid Pinkerton men in dime novels, Labor grew to hate the name more & more. For Pinkerton's was also making money by supplying armed guards to employers with labor troubles. In 1892 hard-boiled Henry Clay Frick imported 300 "Pinks" to fight a bloody, all-day battle with his steelworkers at Homestead...