Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fans showed what they thought of Uncle Mike's prices. Just before Willie Pep knocked out Sal Bartolo to become undisputed featherweight champion, the fight announcer ballyhooed the details of the coming heavyweight fight, and was drowned out by boos. The day before, Manhattan police raided the Jacobs Ticket Agency, just around the corner from Mike's office, found the best seats being scalped...
Swap. In Tacoma, Wash., safecrackers burgled a meat market, took $450, left a ticket to the policemen's ball...
However the conference committee may reconcile these two versions of Congressional determination to "get the bureaucrats," the result will be a one way ticket on the inflationary joy-ride. If President Truman signs the final bill, he faces cost of living, strikes that will make him wonder if he ever knew what labor troubles really were. He will earn the embittered contempt of those who, like veterans in college, must live within a frozen income. And, more important than the hatred of the more seriously injured citizens, he will have endangered the social structure of the nation...
...roundhouses was brightened by the sudden yellow glare from fire doors. By midnight, on almost all the 337 strikebound roads, locomotives drummed through the darkness with throttles back and Johnson bars in the corner. More slowly, freight trains took up their grinding journeys. In railroad stations lines reformed at ticket windows. Baggage appeared; redcaps toiled. The Government turned the roads back to their owners...
Three. The prestidigitator went on to Paris by sleeper, hired a black-market car for the day, drank black-market champagne with his black-market lunch & dinner, all of which cost him 5,000 of his black-market francs. A plane ticket to London cost another 3,000 francs. The remainder (112,000 French francs) was deposited with another of the network's stooges, who operated within a stone's throw of the Opera...