Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stickler. Many people shrug off the lady Senator's declaration as something frivolously feminine. They don't know Maggie. Feminine she is, but not frivolous. Daughter of a barber in Skowhegan, Margaret Madeline Chase never went to college, clerked in a dime store for 100 an hour, worked on a newspaper, taught school, filled in as a night switchboard operator for the phone company. Her husband Clyde, Skow-hegan's first Republican selectman, won 48 straight elections in his lifetime, got elected to Congress in 1936. He died four years later, and Maggie took his place, winning...
...head that wears a crown-the $80,000-a-year presidency. Nobody tells old President Edwards, due for mandatory retirement, anything he does not want to hear. He is even provided with the tragic flaw of the Shakespearean hero. He likes to pinch women's gloves from dime-store counters and file them away in his great big desk. It is a pretty harmless foible, but if this were known, what would it do to the "Company Image"? Two extraverted corporate types are rivals for his ballpoint-pen scepter, but although the telephone company can command more men than...
...fares would cost ten cents, Harmon said, and students would pay in advance so that the bus driver could collect tickets rather than money. A poll of 'Cliffies earlier this year showed that a dime was the highest fare likely to be attractive, Harmon added...
...paid newspaper weeklies beginning in 1958. To Slacker's satisfaction, all but 20,000 of his 60,000 readers submitted to a levy of a nickel; to lis greater satisfaction, all but a handful of those stayed aboard last month when he raised the price to a dime. Although Blacker's papers now carry syndicated columnists, his news approach has remained steadfastly local...
Both Veit and Thayer predicted that the departure of the Mirror will carry 500,000 New York newspaper buyers into oblivion. If so, it would be a part of a vanishing act that began in 1957. That year, after raising their price to a dime, the three afternoon dailies collectively lost a 333,000 paid readership -only 46,000 of which has come back. After the city's 114-day newspaper strike last winter, another 500,000 buyers disappeared for good. If prophecies about the Mirror prove true, the total loss will soar past...