Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...write off $25 million (at retail, not wholesale, prices) of the $53 million ransom as "charitable" deductions. Charitable it certainly was-but of the sort that might becloud the brow of the ordinary U.S. taxpayer, worried as he is by Administration threats to make him show receipts for every dime he hands out for charity...
Woolworth's appears suddenly to have become very sensitive to the ideological interests of its customers. After several months of pressure--mostly in the form of irate, anonymous letters and protests from local patriotic organizations, the dime store chain has decided to discontinue selling the few goods it carries which are manufactured in Soviet bloc countries...
...damn thing out of here." He wore the same shapeless brown fedora for some 15 years. His frayed shirts were usually smudged, his brown or grey suits baggy, his high-laced shoes were scuffed. His only sartorial concern was that all aldermen wear straw hats, white gloves and carry dime-store flags in the Memorial Day parade each year. They did-and still...
...turning to the small electronic timekeepers that Bulova Watch Co. developed for its Accutron wrist watches. To measure time, these timers use a transistor-controlled tuning fork that runs indefinitely on a tiny trickle ( eight-millionths of a watt) of electric power; a battery the size of a dime will keep one of them humming for a year. The whole apparatus weighs less than three ounces, and it can easily be set to turn off a satellite's transmitter after any desired time interval...
...second-rate competition, the World-Telegram features such Page One pap as a series of blurbs about the paper's rejiggering of its comic page ("We want to know what you think"). From the circulation ground lost by Manhattan's three evening papers after going to a dime in 1957, the World-Telegram has made the poorest recovery. Present circulation: 460,883, some 100,000 below the 1957 figure...