Word: hotdog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...humble hotdog is H.S.A.'s biggest money-maker. One year ago the Stadium Concessions Agency took over food and program sales at football games from an outside professional organization. Sales rose 25 per cent the first year and may go even higher this season. Net profit to the managers and employees of Stadium Concessions reached nearly $10,000, a fifth of the total for H.S.A. as a whole...
...final touch, the Agency has even taught its vendors how to appeal to their Harvard customers. "Get your icecold hotdog here," one was heard to wail, offering a tolerably warm specimen. Then plaintively, "Please, somebody buy this hotdog." And people do. Each sale earns three cents for the hawker, and a penny saved is $50,000 a year...
...that he represents keeps on sending him back, he sees no reason to change his tactics.* In his time, rotund Manny Celler has whaled away at the steel industry and bank mergers, Wall Street and newsprint combines, even probed big-league baseball for suspected monopolistic tendencies (and why a hotdog cost 20? at Ebbets Field...
...Hotdogs," yelled a lady a few seats away. Hotdogs, a pale boy with two missing front teeth came lounging over. He looked at her unhappily. Every hotdog he sold was clearly a personal a front. The woman, however, paid no attention to his feeling and began ordering a string of hotdogs, and I began passing them along down...