Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME...
...wayward economics of big business that caused the Depression, and about the NRA, unemployment curves, the deprivations of the Dust Bowl and Social Security. But what about the time Huey Long met Ina Ray Hutton? Moments like this-of which there are many in Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?-may not change history, but they can bring it close as no transcript or statistic can. It is the unproclaimed thesis of this breezy, weightless chronicle of the Depression that time is the sum of events great and small, and that the footnotes to history usually make better reading than...
SUNDAY. A mailman handed a special delivery letter for Edgar Bronfman to Frank Vida, the doorman at Bronfman's Manhattan apartment on Park Avenue. It was a dime short in postage, which Vida paid and duly noted on the envelope. The letter was a curious two-page, single-spaced typewritten document from the kidnapers, and it contained these main provisions...
...that fired in ringing engines and hung grey-eyed in their dribbling wake. For a day and a half, Fred and I raced through the tidal hours in his bronze-bodied van, but the American whatever stayed with us always. Caught in its plastic envelope like marbles in a dime-store package, we pressed never-ward with eight cylinders and 287 horsepower, spinning down white-aisled roads, waiting to be torn free...
...rate-making Postal Rate Commission, has come up with a decision that would pile an even huger increase on top of all the others. His announced formula, which touched off alarm bells throughout the world of print journalism last week, is to cut first-class rates from a dime to 8½? and make up for the lost income in part by raising second-class rates yet another 122%. Added to increases already in effect or planned, Wenner's scheme would boost second-class rates to five times what they were in 1971. Furthermore, there is the likelihood...