Word: surreys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...memorabilia of the Old West and graft on a few colorful traditions of its own. Ushers in long coats and high boots ring bells up and down Eureka Street announcing the opera performances like town criers. Opening day saw square dances in front of the opera house, and a surrey with the fringe on top conveyed dignitaries to the ceremonies. The nostalgically inclined can bucket out to deserted mines in Jeeps, watch a pony-express ride, or stare at The Face on the Barroom Floor, a new face commissioned to please the tourists who, in turn, prefer to believe that...
...Oklahoma! Fringe benefits became popular in World War II, when the Government's freeze on wages inspired labor-hungry companies to create other inducements; fringes probably got their name as extra trimmings from Oklahoma!'s catchy 1943 song, The Surrey with the Fringe on Top. While wages and salaries have about doubled since 1948, fringes have more than quadrupled, to some $58 billion yearly. They now amount to more than 20% of U.S. industry's payroll costs. Some companies now pay so much of their labor costs in extras that they consider "fringe" benefits a misnomer...
From the sumptuous isolation of his 70-room countryseat in Surrey, Billionaire J. Paul Getty, 70, told BBC tellyviewers how awful it was to be rich. Money wasn't everything, said J. Paul; "some of the best times I've had didn't cost money." What was more, "I wish I had a better personality so that I could entertain better. I'm worried that I may be on the dull side." Later, in Manhattan, jet-set Journalist Elsa Maxwell, 79, agreed with Getty all the way. "He's quite right to wish that," observed...
Died. Sir Eric Vansittart Bowater, 67, British builder of a $600,000.000 pulp and paper empire that began with a small family paper company, eventually became one of the world's largest producers of newsprint, with pulp mills from Sweden to South Carolina; in West Horsley, Surrey...
Perhaps the most perfect captive audience in all America is the one that steps into an elevator, watches the door slide shut, and then listens to a piped-in ver sion of Surrey with the Fringe...