Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...satchels loaded (14 lbs.) with forms and pencils, were running into the same human problems behind the statistics. A Boston man caught up with his census taker to say that he had understated his annual income by $750; he did not want his wife to know about his extra pocket money. In Dellview, N.C., a census taker found that the town's population had decreased by three; the 1960 count: four. At Detroit's Statler Hilton Hotel, the census taker discovered that the reason that many a guest failed to answer up in the poll of transients...
...city administration. "Tell them we'll pay $8,000," said Lee to the city attorney, "and if they won't settle for that, they'll have to sue." ¶ Canceled the $2,000-a-year "contingency fund" provided to cover the mayor's out-of-pocket expenses, thereby shamed the four other members of the city commission into giving up their own $500-apiece contingency funds.¶Sliced a fast $258,500 out of the previous administration's final bud'get, vowed to whittle away $250,000 more. ¶Forced the resignation...
...Massachusetts' John Kennedy, Butler made clear, is his Democratic presidential candidate. If Kennedy wins in the Wisconsin primary, Butler predicted, he should cop the nomination. But if he arrives in Los Angeles with as many as 500 delegates in his pocket and still falls short of the big prize, most Catholics will regard it as "an anti-Catholic maneuver," with dire consequences in the general election...
...electrical filters, has raised its work force to 15 (now all adults) in a new plant. Since Allen has had to finance his business out of profits, he has been care ful to see that whatever he made was certain to sell, draws only a teen-ager's pocket money for himself...
Sony stock, for example, rose from $1.67 to $3.81 in the last 2½ months as its ex ports soared. Founded only twelve years ago by Masaru Ibuka. a onetime radio-station repairman, Sony now exports 25,000 pocket radios a month to the U.S. and Canada, will soon introduce a portable, all-transistor TV set. Next month it will also start exporting a new semiconductor that it invented: a "tunnel diode." U.S. companies have found it so superior to present diodes for many uses that Gen eral Electric, RCA and others are hustling to mass-produce their...