Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was a fair question. The box-office future had looked dark, but slashing ticket prices up to 50% had brightened things considerably. Conductor Ormandy was not worried: the tour, and the Philadelphia's nearly $16,000-a-week payroll (duly noted by the London press) was guaranteed. Hardly worried. either was the guarantor-handsome, 31-year-old British Impresario Harold Fielding, who stood to make up in publicity and prestige what he would shell out of his pocket. Moreover, on a turnabout's-fair-play basis, U.S. Music Czar James Caesar Petrillo would welcome British orchestras...
...railway and airline offices on the Canadian side of the Canada-U.S. border many a U.S. citizen queued up last week and bought his ticket from a Canadian agent. In the same offices, almost every mail brought letters from the U.S. with orders and checks for plane and train tickets between U.S. points. More & more Americans were getting wise to the fact that they could get bargains in transportation by buying their tickets in Canada...
...budget, Canada had cut off the 15% wartime excise tax on air and rail tickets (TIME, May 23). In the U.S., a 15% tax was still on. The knowing traveler simply mailed his ticket order to a Canadian office (or went in person if he lived at a border point such as Detroit or Buffalo) and saved himself the amount of the tax. Sample saving on a round trip from Washington to Los Angeles...
...York Harvard Club is one of ten exclusive social and athletic clubs which are being investigated in the current New York City probe of alleged theater ticket scalping. Among the other clubs implicated are the Yale, Princeton and Columbia clubs...
Kenny lost no time striking back. He whipped together a fusion "Freedom Ticket": himself, three other Democrats and one Republican. They spent money lavishly. Kenny, small, dark, quietly confident, was himself a wealthy man, owner of a trucking business. Organized labor, civic groups, even suddenly hardy souls in the courthouse and city hall flocked to their side. Kenny had powerful connections. In Kenny's office on election night, listening to the returns, sat the Teamsters' czar, Dave Beck...