Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Garrett's stock. A onetime barnstormer, mail pilot and test pilot who was Charles Lindbergh's copilot on one of the first transcontinental passenger runs in 1929, Bellande now restricts his piloting to the company Convair. Behind his desk, on which sits a dime-store statuette of a hula dancer, Garrett's $99,000-a-year boss is a smooth delegator of authority, a stickler for punctuality. At home in Bel Air, he collects shotguns and rifles, which he uses on Jeep trips across the California countryside in search of game birds...
...Amos n' Andy put black on their faces and made millions. Here I am, born with the stuff, and cain't make a dime...
...afford to set up a law practice. He collected 1,000 coat hangers, sold them and his old clothes, lived on the meager proceeds until he got a job - driving a dump truck. He was still piloting the truck at 23, when he met a clerk in a dime store named Lurleen Burns, 16. They were married in May 1943 and now have four children...
Overall daily circulation dipped 10%, to 5,000,000 just after the strike ended, and there it has stayed. Sunday circulation, from a prestrike 6,700,000, has fallen 500,000 to 6,200,000. The Times, which together with the Herald Tribune, raised its copy price to a dime, has dropped 70,000 daily circulation, to 636,000. But the News, which stayed at a nickel, has lost 100,000 daily and nearly 200,000 Sunday. All three afternoon papers, which were already selling for a dime, suffered circulation losses -from the Post's 4% to the World...
Another basic low-priced item in any U.S. coin collection is proof sets-packets of specially polished samples of the half dollar, quarter, dime, nickel and penny sold by the U.S. mint for $2.10. About 200,000 of the proof sets for 1960 had a smaller-than-average zero in the date on the penny, and the price for these has bounced within the past few weeks from...