Word: skinflint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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World's biggest bargain in rail travel is the 25-mi. ride to be had for 5? on New York City's subways. Nevertheless, many a skinflint succeeds in cheating the companies out of his fare by using slugs in the automatic turnstiles. Last week New York's short, swart Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia dispatched a scow to Long Island Sound to dump 620,000 slugs- representing a loss of $31,000 to the city-owned Independent Subway System alone -into the sea. The assorted slugs weighed three tons, consisted mainly of lead, iron, aluminum, brass...
...Johns Hopkins, the Baltimore skinflint who founded Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins University, turned in his grave ten years ago when Johns Hopkins Hospital trustees asked the U. S. public for $4,550,000 for new buildings and $8,600,000 for additional endowment, then Johns Hopkins' bones must have had a conniption fit last week. For the trustees of Johns Hopkins Hospital were begging former patients to contribute $200,000 to prevent the financially strapped hospital from shutting a large number of its free wards and curtailing its free clinical services. The famed hospital, which takes medical...