Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nevada Assemblyman C. C. Boak, 79, introduced a bill to grant divorces by slot machine. The divorce seeker would punch the machine once a day for 42 days, to establish residence, then insert 200 silver dollars. As the divorce popped out of a slot, colored lights would flash, wheels spin and a jukebox would play America. ¶ Hoping to sell more pretzels during Lent, Alex V. Tisdale, president of the National Pretzel Bakers Institute, explained that the twist was originally supposed to represent arms folded in prayer...
Outside the eastern India hill resort of Ranchi last week 5,000 people, many in loincloths, some decked out in peacock feathers and silver ankle bangles, listened to a dapper, cigar-smoking orator clad in a natty green bush jacket and gabardine trousers. "Adibasis I" he addressed them. "The most ancient aristocracy of India, the original settlers of this country, the most democratic element in the land are everywhere shouting Jai Jarkhand [Victory to Jungle land]." As the crowd heard their fellow tribesman, Oxford-educated Jaipal Singh, 46, mention Jarkhand, the province they wanted carved out for themselves in east...
...plans to sell: a $1,000 spinet; two Harley-Davidson motorcycles; a $1,500 silver service; a $250 brass fireplace set; a $500 pair of hand-tooled cowboy boots; two pedigreed great Dane puppies ("I do hope we can find them a good home in the country"); a year's supply of dog food...
Protestant churchmen busied themselves last week in the statesmen's world. In the silver ballroom of the Hotel Cleveland, 460 bishops, preachers, missionaries and other delegates to the National Study Conference on the Churches and World Order wrestled with a troublous subject: U.S. leadership in world affairs. They had an expert and conscientious coach. From the moment U.N. Delegate John Foster Dulles ended his opening address (TIME, March 14), most of the delegates looked to him for guidance on the question for which he had done his best to prepare them: the North Atlantic Security Pact (see INTERNATIONAL...
...rolled out onto the runway. Into it stepped lanky, 29-year-old William P. Odom, round-the-world speed champion (TIME, Aug. 18, 1947), dressed in a splashy tie, double-breasted suit and Homburg hat. Odom had managed to cram 300 gallons of gasoline into his red-and-silver monoplane, some in extra tanks on his wings and some in his cabin...