Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gotta be in it to win," the touts cry. Australians get in it by buying tickets from state lottery offices or, in Queensland, from thousands of small agents, barbers, news dealers, tobacconists, and drugstore clerks, whose "Don't Pass Your Luck" signs offer curbside service. In Sydney some superstitious ticket buyers write their names upside down on the application forms. Others enter the lottery office only by exits and leave through entrances. Scores wait under the lottery-office clock until the hour strikes before buying a ticket. One regular buyer steadfastly refuses to enter the lottery office until...
...Winning Marble. In Sydney a businessman who gave away $92 worth of lottery tickets as Christmas gifts discovered that one of the tickets had won $27,000. Another $13,500 prizewinner, arrested for drunkenness after celebrating his win, promptly bailed out all his fellow tosspots in the city jail, explaining: "They're a very nice crowd." Such incidents are routine for lottery-covering newsmen, but last week all Australia waited breathless while the big Tasmanian barrel roared to a stop and English Cricket Star Alec Bedser reached for the marble that would pay someone more than half a million...
...Lousy Five Bucks. Even McGinnis' innovations to soothe the public had a way of backfiring. His half-fare "Ladies' Day" tickets each Wednesday were an instant hit with the female population in the commuting perimeter. But they resulted in more overcrowding, more slowdowns and more complaints. The public was well pleased when McGinnis began a program of improving and enlarging the parking lots at suburban stations. Then he announced a monthly parking charge of $5.50 a car. While the customers howled over what amounted to a concealed hike in their commutation-ticket fares. Pat McGinnis turned the affair...
...Struggle: Back in Saint-Ceré the Poujades set up a small book-and-stationery shop, scraped along on sales of tourist postcards. Elected to municipal council on a Gaullist ticket, Poujade developed a gift for homespun speechmaking...
...Tickets for Saturday's varsity hockey game against Brown at Watson Rink may be procured at the offices of the Department of Athletics at 60 Boylston Street before 5 p.m. today. An undergraduate's first ticket will be free, the second will cost...