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Word: gunness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Easy Money is a two-and-a-half-hour afternoon broadcast over WPG (Atlantic City). Presenting riddles at five-minute intervals, the station pays $1 to the listener who is first to telephone the correct answer. Innumerable wise contestants were jumping the starting gun by dialing the first four digits of WPG's number, snapping the final digit as soon as they had the solution. Until the wires were cleared by mass attack on the fifth digit, that trick automatically put busy signals on the ten telephones with numbers beginning with the same four digits. Because of the oddities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Riddle Ruckus | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...embattled telephone company met the crisis by giving Easy Money number 5-5261 (only Atlantic City number assigned on the 5-5 series). The company thwarted gun-jumpers by making the connection on dialing the second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Riddle Ruckus | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...years president of the potent General Drivers Union No. 544; from a shot fired by his bodyguard, Arnold Ralph Johnson; in Minneapolis. Johnson, who had been drinking all afternoon, told police: "Brown flashed a roll of bills. I asked him for a share and he refused. I drew a gun and shot him. He was my best friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 6, 1938 | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

This afternoon the Vagabond will visit the Coop--with a purpose. There he will purchase a flyswatter, mosquito netting, sticky paper, the most deadly exterminator, and the biggest Flit gun available. If that wasp or any more of the air corps drops in for a call tomorrow morning, they are going to catch a warm reception. The ground forces will be prepared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/1/1938 | See Source »

Appearing with a beebe gun of ancient vintage and formidable appearance, Frederick C. Minkler '39 sent a dozen waitresses scurrying for shelter in the Lowell House dining room last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BELLBOY MARKSMAN GROUNDS BALLOON IN DINING ROOM | 5/24/1938 | See Source »

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