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...days and nights, Mrs. Durr had 39 guests. As the storm raged on, they feasted on corned beef brisket, little pig sausage, green beans, dozens of eggs and gallons of milk. The women shared the beds; the men slept on the floor. Mrs. Durr wouldn't take a dime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: Blue Norther | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...morning last week Bad Boy leaned out the window of the second-story furnished room where he had holed up in Chester. A knot of men were standing below. Bad Boy began acting silly. He dropped a dime and called down, "Call the cops." One of the men picked up the dime, said: "This will get me a cup of coffee." Bad Boy got crazy mad. He reached back, got a .22 rifle, aimed it out the open window, killed one of the men below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The End of Bad Boy Collins | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...boys will sit in the steel stands, paying only a dime of the 30-cent Federal tax fee while PBH pays the rest. A special entrance--gate 21--will receive the settlement house guests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Free Brown Seats Go to 500 Boys | 11/10/1948 | See Source »

Over 1,000 duplicate books will go on sale in Widener Lower Hall today from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The offering will include a large number of dime books and others at prices ranging...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Extra Widener Books To Go on Sale Today | 10/20/1948 | See Source »

...comparative prices, a meal of shrimps, wine, tomato and potato salad, more wine, steak and, of course, French fried potatoes and more wine, and cheese for dessert costs a dollar at any of the restaurants off the large boulevards. Movies range from a dime to a dollar, the opera four times a week can be enjoyed for thirty cents, the Folies start at sixty-five, and exhibitions for five run around a buck and a half each. These are computed at the legal rate of exchange of 3000 francs to the dollar...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Notes On Tourists, Students, Francs, and Politics | 9/28/1948 | See Source »

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