Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...March 2 the cost of mailing a first-class letter will go up from 8? to a dime, an increase of 25%. Most Americans will feel that bite of inflation at once, but another may go unnoticed at first. On the same day, a new jump in second-class postal rates, which affect magazines and newspapers, will take effect. This increment is the first installment of a 40% rise to be spread over the next 28 months. It comes on top of a fiveyear, 145% rate hike begun in 1971. The new increase, being imposed on a compound basis, means...
...permitted under price controls. Federal Energy Chief William Simon predicted that gas will go up a total of 80 to 110 per gal. in coming weeks, jacking up nationwide average pump prices to somewhere between 510 and 540 per gal. for regular. Heating oil likely will rise a dime a gallon by March 1, to an average of 390 plus tax-a third more than it cost even last month...
...bullet he could outspeed and of the locomotive he could overpower. Terry and the Pirates, Buck Rogers and Little Orphan Annie were liberated from the frozen postures of the comic strip. Captain Midnight; Tom Mix; Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, among others, became the aural equivalents of the dime novel and the magazine serial...
...glimpse of Bear Bryant, Alabama's supercoach. A whole cult has grown up around the Bear, and I was part of it. He was such a hero that everyone swore he could beat George Wallace if he ran for governor. And rumors held that he could walk on water. (Dime stores still sell huge posters of Bryant walking across an endless sea. The picture shows him from the back, but you can tell it's the Bear by the trademark tweed hat, sloppy sweater, and a certain down-home...
...CONDITIONERS: Some units give a lot of cooling power for a dime's worth of electricity; others give less than half as much. The trick to separating the gluttons from the economizers lies in dividing a model's advertised cooling power, usually expressed in B.T.U.s (British thermal units), by its wattage. If a unit requires 2,000 watts to produce 10,000 B.T.U.s of cooling power, it has an efficiency rating of 5, and that means it is a dog. Running it on "high" for 24 hours a day, every day for a month, uses...