Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have looked down their noses and called us rednecks?and I'm sick and tired of it." At another point, he declares that "both national parties ought to be for law and order. They took it away from you by kowtowing to anarchists." He adds: "There's not a dime's worth of difference between either of them...
Money and Management. Like many other small business enterprises, a number of new Negro-owned businesses have foundered. In Pittsburgh, a Negro druggist failed after he converted his pharmacy into a pinball parlor, whose dime machines produced a much lower return, than high-markup drugs. Hard times have hit Fairmico, a boxmaking company formed last April in Washington, D.C. Owned by Fairchild Hiller and a local Negro community group, it is Negro-managed and hires only the hard-core jobless. Absenteeism has run high, and some drug addicts have taken injections right on the factory floor. But, despite such .problems...
Sixth Writer: "Want change for a dime, George...
...Dime. Today José and his wife Hilda live in a $60,000 home an hour's drive down the coast from Los Angeles. There they are surrounded by 400 birds, tanks of tropical fish, six dogs and a small chinchilla farm. The new mode of Jose's life is a little bewildering to members of his family, some of whom even think wistfully of the old days in Manhattan. "In a way it was nice to be poor," says his 18-year-old brother, George. "We could get so much fun out of a little dime...
...chief: "We have not had a single complaint, so their service must be satisfactory." Agnes Ash of Women's Wear Daily noted the plight of Ben Novack, owner of the Hotel Fontainebleau. "The Republicans aren't spending any money," he groused. "I'm not making a dime out of this convention." Outfitted in his "double-breasted blue flannel blazer, yachting cap and white duck pants," wrote Agnes Ash, "Novack continued to prowl the lobby, restlessly looking in vain for a big spender...