Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Getting in to a new Broadway hit often takes patience, pleading-or a hefty premium that is many times the price of admission. Tickets disappear first at the box office, then at the large, reputable ticket brokers (who, unlike many of their smaller, shadier colleagues, charge no more than the top legal fee of 75? a ticket). But for those who want seats badly enough, especially in the first ten rows, there is a booming black market...
Sylvia is an annoyance to her more conventional fellow ticket brokers. Last week some of them planned an appeal to the League of New York Theaters to outlaw her club because, they argued, she was violating the ticket code's ban on large purchases of seats in advance of a show's opening. The same code also bans trafficking in tickets as if they were chocolate bars in Berlin-but no one seemed much concerned about that...
Last week the company struck a shrewd blow at filtración. Under a new plan, the conductors (many of whom are women) were required to hand out a ticket for each fare received. When a passenger had collected 25 tickets, he would turn them in for a numbered "gift certificate." Holders of each month's lucky numbers would win: a $15,000 house, six refrigerators, six console radios, six washing machines, six bicycles, 99 table radios, 99 pairs of shoes, 700 towel sets and-just to keep the gambling wheel spinning-2,277 tickets in the National Lottery...
...policy games in addition to the National Lottery, thus had a vested interest in keeping the conductors honest. Guaguas, always jammed to the fenders, grew even more crowded. Marveled one conductor: "Before, we had to chase down some passengers for their fares; now they chase us down for their tickets." A jubilant inspector reported that his job had suddenly become a lead-pipe cinch; "Some people try to pay twice just to get an extra ticket." The company estimated that fare collections would climb some $70,000 a month; the prizes would cost only...
Dissonance. In Kirkwood, Mo., the St. Louis Police Quartet finished up their recital at the First Presbyterian Church, found a parking ticket on their...