Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...company executives have learned to swallow such gibes as "Hershey is packaging a nice razor blade now." Recently, when cocoa prices tumbled below 30?, the bar was raised back to a full ounce. Hershey jiggers with weight instead of price because its nickel bars have always vastly outsold its dime bars; they also outsell any competing nickel candy bar of any kind or shape by at least...
Fivepenny Sixpences. Of various proposals for decimalization, the most practical is the solution already adopted by South Africa and recommended for Australia and New Zealand. The pound note would be scrapped, and the 10-shilling note become the standard denomination, while shillings would represent ten penny units like the dime; the present sixpenny bit would thus represent 5 pence and be equivalent to the U.S. nickel, while the half crown would correspond to a quarter. Britons are divided over nomenclature for the new 10-shilling bill. Some want to call it a "Britannia," others a "noble"-after an English coin...
...gentlemen from Washington's National Gallery of Art had every reason to be jubilant as they left the Manhattan penthouse of Dime-Store Tycoon Samuel Kress that day in 1939, but they also had reason to wonder about Mr. Kress's mood. "I feel," said one, "as though we had just become his sons-in-law, and that he's still not too sure of the marriage." Small wonder. The marriage in question was Kress's gift to the National Gallery of 416 paintings and 35 sculptures from his own beloved collection-the beginning...
...Slim; Prestige). A collection of original blues by a singer with a voice alive with meaningful inflections. The laments are universal: "Ah walked into a beer tavern To give a girl a nice time Ah had forty-five dollars when ah entered. When ah lef, ah only had one dime. Was she a beer-drinkin' woman? Don't you know, man, don't you know...
...slick technical standards of Hollywood, Operation Abolition is one of the least likely film hits since nickelodeons first started to charge a dime. The movie is an abrupt, badly edited 45-minute short. Its eye-jolting camera work is murky, its sound track raucous and shrill. But its impact is pure boffo. Prints of Operation Abolition are booked months in advance by Army camps, student groups, American Legion posts, political meetings, churches and corporations. Pennsylvania Democrat Francis E. Walter, chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, estimates that more than 10 million people have seen the film since...