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Word: ticket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Benson went to Europe," thundered Republican Congressman Usher Burdick last week, "we made a mistake by buying him a return ticket." Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson had curdled North Dakota's Burdick by announcing that federal price supports on milk and butterfat would be cut to the legal minimum, 75% of parity, on April 1. Current support levels: 83% for milk, 80% for butterfat. The cuts were needed, explained Benson, to shrink the "incentive for excessive production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Curdled Milk | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

...prepares you for Broadway. All those years in radio with some guy holding up an applause card-that isn't show business. You aren't a success in show business until you do something that makes the people dig down in their pants pockets and buy a ticket." Last week so many people were digging down for tickets to his rollicking smash hit musical that Music Man Willson was a victim of his own success, had to watch one performance from standing room in the rear of the theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Dec. 30, 1957 | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

Under Cambridge parking regulations, any car may be towed away and the owner charged for the towing if the police have issued two warning tickets. However, out-of-state cars may be towed away after only one warning ticket. Linehan said the courts would back the police department "completely" in enforcing these regulations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Start Campaign To Stop Night Parking | 12/17/1957 | See Source »

Long before the end-zone seats for the Baltimore Colts-San Francisco Forty Niners football game went on sale last week, one fan camped out in front of the box office. He had a Thermos of coffee, a blanket, and an electric razor. "After I buy my ticket," he explained, "I'll go to a service station and shave. I've got to look presentable for the Forty Niners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Short Ride Home | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...York Central and New Haven shelled out an $11.5 million city tax bill in 1956 on Grand Central Terminal and its 5.4-mile approach, a $2,000,000 increase since 1952. Furthermore, railroads must maintain cut-rate "incentive" commuter fares in hours of peak demand. A New Haven commutation ticket between New York and Greenwich, Conn, cuts the round-trip fare to $1.06 (v. straight-ticket cost of $2.20). Park Forest to Chicago round-trip commuters pay only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COMMUTER PROBLEM,: Higher Fares Alone Are Not the Answer | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

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