Word: ticketing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disney's Folly. Wary Hollywood, which scoffed at sound ten years ago, scoffed at the idea of a seven-reel animated cartoon. The Snow White project was referred to as Disney's Folly. Rivals said he had bought a sweepstakes ticket. Shrewd older Brother Roy Disney, the business brain trust of the Disney enterprises, surveyed Snow White's final bill of $1,600,000, observed: "We've bought the whole damned sweepstakes." In the Disney film, Snow White, the delicate stepdaughter of the Queen, is a dark-haired girl with a doll's oval beauty...
...there were occasional slips of the new electoral machinery as when, in Simferopol, one of the polling places designated was a house torn down some months ago; in Rostov-on-Don where a polling booth was placed inside a cinema so that it was necessary to buy a ticket to the show in order to vote...
...heard of gold on the Pacific Coast he started for California as a matter of course, arriving with a wagon train after combating cholera, dysentery, Indians, grizzly bears, treacherous rivers, hunger, thirst. He panned a few ounces of gold but gave it up to become a sailor, trapper, steamboat ticket speculator. In San Francisco he studied law, became a prominent citizen, headed the forces opposed to the Vigilantes, met and disliked William Tecumseh ("War is Hell'') Sherman who was then simply a California banker and commander of the California militia. In the Civil War, Wistar was wounded four...
Before automobile and airplane accidents crowded railroad wrecks off front pages ticket agents did a good business passing out $5,000 insurance policies, covering death and disablement and good for one day's travel, at 25? apiece. Now, so phenomenally safe are railroads, fewer riders bother to insure. But air travelers with no such feeling of security are anxious to insure beyond their ordinary life insurance, and insurance groups have long pondered what rates they could make to obtain this potential new business. Last week, Air Transport Association of America announced a new $5,000 policy for airline travelers...
...rail or steamer and airline conveyance to and from airports. Only hours actually in the air, according to the airline's schedule, are counted in fixing the rate. Slightly under the general rate, Newark-Chicago insurance costs 25? and any transcontinental flight, $1. Policies will be handled by ticket agents at counters of all airlines, one of the selling features being the record time and ease of handling-two signatures on the ready-made form, ten seconds of time and the passenger is insured...