Word: packets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government fixed the subsidy for Italy's twelve major opera houses* at 15% of all Italy's entertainment tax receipts (eleven lesser opera companies were granted a smaller percentage). By 1955, this had boosted the annual opera packet to $6,000,000. Last fall the government announced that it would press for a law establishing the subsidy at a flat $4,000,000 yearly. This would not affect the music, said economy-minded Budget Minister Adone Zoli, but would merely curtail extravagant choreographic and scenic effects...
...perilous escape across the border. Clutching their cheap cloth satchels, they shuffled gratefully to shelter. One boy, dressed in a knitted hat and an oversize leather coat, carried all his belongings in a paper bundle strapped to his back with brown twine. An old woman proudly displayed the packet of soil that she had dug from her garden...
...years ago Todd helped lead the big-screen revolution when he got into the movie business in a big way with Cinerama. When he got out of Cinerama at a pleasant profit he parlayed the entire packet on a process he thought even better, Todd-AO. When he got out of Todd-AO, he put it all on Around the World, had to borrow more to make the distance. Two days before the opening, as he was struggling to raise the last $162,000 for the final payment, a syndicate offered to buy him out for $10 million plus...
...from Paradise Isle. The refreshing switch in this latest packet of nonfiction escape literature is that Barbara Hooton thought of Manhattan as paradise and regarded the wide-open spaces as a disease which Hubby Bill had somehow caught. Her account of the running of a New Mexico dude ranch, as breezily set down by her collaborator and longtime friend, Patrick (Auntie Mame) Dennis, might be subtitled "Auntie Mame Rides Again" or "The Comic Labors of Hercules...
EVERY Wednesday morning, a motorcyclist in green uniform speeds from Rio's Catete Palace to Galeão Airport to meet the plane that brings TIME'S Latin American edition from our Havana printers. At the airport, customs officers break open a packet of the magazines, then, before clearing any other cargo, they give a copy of TIME to the palace messenger. He rushes it to President Juscelino Kubitschek's secretary, João Luis, who delivers it immediately to the President, even if he has to interrupt a conference...