Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then again, there is the "Penny Just SO Saves Nine" technique, but this is entirely restricted to real artists. By casting a penny down a nickel slot so that it hits on an angle roughly corresponding to ten o'clock on the coin, the dime bell will ring. Tricky...
After 73 days of marriage but little bliss, Five & Dime Store Heiress Barbara Hutton and Dominican Playboy-Diplomat Porfirio Rubirosa "mutually decided that it is wisest for us to separate." The honeymoon had been a mishmash of thrills (Rubi finished second in the Sebring twelve-hour sports-car endurance race), spills (Babs broke an ankle in her Manhattan bathroom), and finally chills (Babs left Rubirosa in their Palm Beach mansion last week and moved in with her aunt). For all of Porfirio's junior standing (he has racked up four marriages to Barbara's five), the round...
...FIVE & DIME oil boom is on at Seneca Lake in eastern Ohio since an auto dealer, wildcatting in his spare time, struck oil at 464 ft. So far, local businessmen have put down 30 wells, have 15 more adrilling, and leases on plots are going for as much...
Soon after he came to the U.S. from Spain in 1924, Painter Julio de Diego found himself with exactly 25^ to his name. He paid a dime for a ride to the top of the Woolworth Building (then the world's tallest), and gaily flung the other 15^ over Manhattan's skyline. Says De Diego: "I wanted to start from scratch...
...sold all the C. & O. stock held by his Alleghany Corp. to Old Friend Cyrus S. Eaton, Cleveland industrialist and a longtime fellow castigator of New York banking interests. Young also sold his own C. & O. holdings, as did a small group of men around Young, including wealthy. Dime Store Heir Allan P. Kirby. Young also turned over his job as chairman of the C. & O. board to Eaton whose C. & O. holdings, with the 104,854 shares bought from Alleghany, swelled to 205,854 shares. Young, Kirby and four other C. & O. directors resigned from the board. This left...