Word: tickets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Riots & Petitions. The campaign on both sides provoked passions that boded no good for German democracy. Bruisers stood on guard at Socialist meetings; admission to Adenauer's meetings was by ticket only, to keep out hecklers. In some towns rivals clashed, and the police used batons and hoses. There were near riots in Frankfurt; in West Berlin cops arrested 239 out of a gang of 500 when they tried to break up a Christian Democratic meeting presided over by the Vice Chancellor of West Germany, Franz Blucher...
North American itself, though its name is on all planes, acted merely as a ticket agency. With that setup, Fischgrund, Weiss & Co. started maneuvering their four "flying companies" to operate what amounted to a regular scheduled airline...
Students who do not already have tickets for tonight's hockey game against Yale must settle for standing room at the Boston Arena, ticket manager Frank Lunden announced yesterday...
...absence from the troupe withdrawing from the production. Kaufman has never made clear whether he did not like the show in Boston or simply thought that Abe Burrows had re-written it too extensively. Burrows' name, which was added to the bill at that time, has not hurt ticket sales, but news of the Kaufman's withdrawal has; even yesterday the show's press representative refused to talk about the incident...
Without Tips. Even the surviving stores could not, with rare exceptions, stay in business without "extras"-greeting cards, fountain pens, records, etc. J. R. ("Jack") Cominsky, publisher of the Saturday Review, suggested to booksellers that they add travel bureaus, ticket bureaus and Western Union branches to stay afloat; he did not even want bookstores to be called bookstores, quoted a department-store president who suggested "community centers for modern living." Book clerks are underpaid, frequently know little about their wares. Said one, a veteran of 40 years in the largest bookshops: "The turnover in employees is greater than the turnover...