Word: ticketes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reno a wife may get rid of one husband and acquire another the same day, but industries seldom undergo such swift vicissitudes. For them the process of losing one meal ticket and acquiring another is generally a matter of years. Not so the U. S. shipping industry. Last week, after only 75 days of argument, it underwent the equivalent of a Reno divorce and remarriage, with a disconcerting reduction of alimony...
...Ohio-Three confessed dynamiters were arrested at Warren. A C.I.Organizer called Gus Hall (real name: Arvo G. Halberg) who ran for councilman in Youngstown two years ago on the Communist ticket, was sought all week by police as the "brains" of a gang of wreckers. Blasts in Canton had ruptured a water main and wrecked a culvert. Into the Warren station to give himself up walked Gus Hall, accusing Republic Steel and its allies of an "unadulterated frame-up." Meantime Republic's plant at Canton where some 2,000 workers had been interned for a month was reopened...
Finance. Prize fighting became important business in 1921, when Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier fought each other in Jersey City for a gate of $1,789,000. Unpublicized co-promoter of that fight, with the late famed Tex Rickard. was a shrewd young ticket speculator from Manhattan's lower East Side named Michael Strauss Jacobs. After the Dempsey v. Carpentier fight, Jacobs helped Rickard build and run the new Madison Square Garden. Promoter Rickard died in 1929. In 1934, Ticket Speculator Jacobs became a prizefight promoter on his own account...
...color line. Only two years ago his Legislature passed and he proudly signed a law giving Negroes equal rights with whites in all Pennsylvania's hotels, shops, restaurants, theatres (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935). Useful as that law has been in winning Negro votes for the Democratic ticket in Pennsylvania, today, when Governor Earle has become an aspirant for the Democratic nomination for President in 1940, it is a major embarrassment...
Washington Street is ablaze with marquees as the Vagabond weaves his way. In deadly peril his eyes blink and head ducks from sharp, swarming umbrellas. Ticket sellers, polished bars, and even the warped old lady vending gardenias are busy in the rain. Doors of movie palaces swing forever, and before the Park Theatre, flaunting its usual lascivious attraction, stand two sailor boys counting their coins...