Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hat in the Ring?" In came the correspondents. "Today," began Big Bill pompously, "we had our regular conference . . ." He droned amiably on, touching hard, while he was at it, on the mutual-aid problems. At length came the inevitable question: "Was there any discussion of the President running again...
...better shape than he was when he made his announcement last Feb. 29. He and we are looking forward to an active, vigorous campaign under his leadership." This time the reporters gulped. "Are you telling us," asked one, "that the President told you he would keep his hat in the ring?" Said Knowland, savoring every second: "I am telling you precisely that." Moments later the classroom bell clanged through Glatfelter Hall, and the reporters took the cue to dash for their telephones...
...Mineral Corp., uranium subsidiary of Texas Co. and New Jersey Zinc. Fletcher Bronson and family originally bought mine for $1,000 as copper prospect in 1946, once turned down $15 million for it. Texas-Zinc is mum on purchase price, but has already started building processing mill at Mexican Hat to handle ore from Happy Jack and other southeastern Utah mines...
Tipping is a formidable institution, and nowhere is it more slavishly and generously served than in Manhattan, where it costs 25? minimum to redeem a hat from a hat-chick, vastly more to ensure a second well-served meal from a Cadillac-owning waiter. Last spring the worst suspicions of tipping's intimidated victims-the customers-were confirmed when Hans Paul, headwaiter at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, was sent to prison; over four years, the Government charged, Headwaiter Paul had evaded payment of $67,070 in taxes-all due on tips. Last week another headwaiter-Hans Paul...
...striking fact stood out in the flurry of news about Galindez' fund raising: in the generous U.S. it is entirely possible for an obscure exile to pass the hat for the nonrecognized government of a nonexistent country-and take in a cool million...