Word: haircuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loading stations where 750 buses load and unload the building each day. The concourse's walls are lined with shops where the Pentagonian can buy a uniform or a brassiére, a bestseller or a funeral wreath, a birthday cake or a railroad ticket, get a haircut or a loan. Once a guiding officer boasted to visiting General Henri Giraud that the Pentagon office girl could buy both a wedding ring and a baby carriage within its walls. The Frenchman asked: "Which do they buy first...
Trimmed. In Quezaltenango, Guatemala, Telegrapher Cesar Arnulfo Anleu persuaded a reluctant barber to give him a shave and haircut in exchange for his $1 national lottery ticket, which next day won the $6,000 grand prize...
VerMeulen closed down to avoid a possible $100 fine or 30 days in jail near his final examination time. He felt that the other was unfair to Yale students none of whom will now be able to get around the standard charge of $1.10 per haircut...
...unkindest cut of all was left to the barbers. Atlanta's haircuts went from 85? to a dollar; Chicago's to $1.50 on Saturdays-with shaves at a firm 85?. A Chicago Saturday-night man could spend $2.35 for the legendary "shave & a haircut, two bits." Customers had their own recourse. Said a Kansas City barber, "It looks like they're saving up an extra quarter's worth of hair before they come in." Waitresses complained of smaller tips...
...trim, arid and isolated atom bomb-making colony of Los Alamos, N.Mex. (pop. 11,000), one man could not get a haircut. Because he could not, neither could anyone else get one in town...