Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jubilee ticket selling is no longer a problem for the '49 Class Committee chairman Buel S. Smith '49 announced at last night's meeting. Treasurer Gunther K. Rosinus '49 indicated in his final report that tickets are "definately sold out," and that Adams House rolled up the largest total of buyers...
...pens of a new model not afflicted with embolism. And Reynolds has bought a "practically" new factory in Chicago which will help turn out 30,000 "miraculous" pens a day. But from now on, selling the pens may not be so freehanded. Penman Reynolds wrote his own ticket by tapping the rich postwar market first. Next month he will run into his first stiff competition. Eversharp and Eberhard Faber, who do 10-15% of the U.S. pen-&-pencil business, will put on sale their own ball-point...
...when I took this job," signed Buel S. Smith '49, chairman of the Jubilee Committee, yesterday, as he announced that he now had offers totaling over 100 from second had clothiers, housewives, retired orchestra conductors, and one exworker of a private escort service to supply used formal wear for ticket holders to the Jubilee on April...
Smith confessed he was cheered, however, by the fine response shown during the first three days of the ticket selling. Over 200 are already gone...
London's war-scarred, double-decked buses yielded to the call of spring. Last week they ran in pairs through the crowded streets. The harassed Passenger Transport Board had a new problem: sex. Tender feelings had blossomed between male drivers and their trousered woman ticket takers, who are known as "clippies." Chivalrous drivers, closely following another bus, cut their own passenger loads, thus greatly reducing their clippies' chores. The consequent disruption of schedules and the savage reaction of stranded customers encouraged the P.T.B. to step up the replacement of clippies by male conductors. Romance...