Word: redeem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week the February Ladies' Home Journal hits the newsstands with Swift's ad. Admen estimated that Swift, whose coupons will have reached a total of 15,075,137 subscribers and newsstand buyers, would not have to redeem more than 5%, the standard figure for such promotions. But last week's sales indicated that the company might have to pay considerably more than the million dollars it would normally allot for the event...
...worldly skeptic of all ages. The Fox tells the princesses that their country's religion, which revolves around a shapeless stone earth-mother deity named Ungit, is a pack of lies. But Ungit's priests bully the king into offering up Psyche as a human sacrifice to redeem the kingdom from an ill fate. The heartbroken Orual makes a pilgrimage to recover her sister's bones from the mountain site of the sacrifice, and to her amazement finds Psyche luminously alive. Through Psyche's newly gained mystical vision, Orual is given a glimpse of paradise...
Some retail groups, such as Arkansas Retail Grocers, want the Government to junk the present distribution system and substitute a food-stamp plan under which needy families would be provided with stamps that could be turned in for groceries at retail stores. Grocers would redeem the stamps with the Government. They argue that a stamp plan would be cheaper and make it easier to keep the cheaters out, but thus far, the Department of Agriculture has cast a cold eye on the plan, and Secretary Benson has called it "unfeasible." Chief reason: a stamp plan would not necessarily drain...
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...
After Tuesday sociability will be on much more of a grass roots level, but the Summer School administration will provide various opportunities for students who may have flunked the first big test to redeem themselves--or merely for people who like to dance to enjoy themselves. In contrast with past summers, which saw orchestra dances at the Union at an admission charge of about $1.00 per person, this season will feature six Friday evening dances--three phonograph-record mixers and three square dances--at the cost of only 25 cents per head. And as a sort of climactic note there...