Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Does all this mean that Mr. President is in for a defeat at the polls? Not at all; it will probably run on Broadway for at least two years. When The Sound of Music strained mightily and came out with the sound of Muzak, a record-breaking advance ticket sale of $2,000,000 assured its long-running success despite the unfavorable judgment of critics. Today's big corporate musicals are almost sure-fire successes because they are symbols of lavish prosperity-a pheasant in every pot, even when it proves to be a turkey. After reading the reviews...
Nothing attests to Byrd's influence on the voters of Virginia more convincingly than the fact that in the past three presidential elections Harry has been too busy "picking apples" to speak out for the Democratic ticket-and the state has gone Republican each time. Byrd did not endorse Ike in 1952, but he did tell Virginians by radio that "I will not, and cannot, in good conscience endorse the national Democratic platform or the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket." In 1956 he said nothing at all. In 1960 he announced only that "I have found at times that silence...
...arrival pronounced himself "embarrassed" at the lack of space. So for his return to Manhattan, ample Jack went whole hog, rented an entire seven-car train (including three club cars) from several railroads and rolled out of Los Angeles last week in imperial style. Price of the ticket for Gleason, 45 "pals," including six dancing girls and a six-piece Dixieland jazzband aboard what the banners proclaim THE GREAT GLEASON EXPRESS...
...airlines. The proposed railroad mergers now before the Interstate Commerce Commission would enable the roads, they say, to save $200 million a year by scrapping duplicate facilities, paring payrolls, and routing trains over the most direct tracks. Similarly, airlines could save tens of millions by pooling hangars, ticket counters and planes, and reducing the frenetic overscheduling of flights...
...once you told me to get in here You could have jumped The fence. I Admired that you should choose The Main Gate, touch Money, exchange Something of Yours for Something of the management's, (The shape of the ticket Window reminded you said the guillotine) That was before I Noticed the fence, the shreds Of silk whipping like flags On those hungry palings, Before I knew No matter how You get in here...