Word: tickets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Central and Pennsylvania railroads installed automatic control centers (see cut) for dispensing tickets in seven stations, including Philadelphia's 30th Street Station, plan other installations along their lines. A "ready sale"board, resembling a stock broker's quotation board, tells both customer and ticket agent what space is available for a one-week period on as many as 23 different trains. Then a special card, representing the passenger's choice of space, is passed through an electronic scanner that prints the Pullman ticket automatically. Elapsed time: two minutes. To accommodate customers ordering reservations from other locations...
Samaritan. In Montgomery, Ala., when he saw a cop writing a ticket for a motorist who had run through a red light, Pedestrian Fred Pickett put up an argument, got the motorist off, got himself fined $5 for interfering with an officer
...group will probably use the space for sets, storage, or administrative and ticket office, depending upon the area which it receives. Ideally, there may be room enough for a small private practice theater...
...Gordo ("the fat one"), the $1,125,000 first prize in the nation's biggest lottery of the year. To the press, Dominguín grandly announced that a million pesetas would go to the poor orphan lad who had pulled the fat one from the ticket basket. Sentimental Spaniards were deeply touched by this generous gesture. But they were even more deeply moved next day, when it became obvious that Luis Miguel had been dreaming out loud; he had not won so much as a centimo in the lottery. Nobody seemed to know just how the phony story...
History can sneak up on a man when his back is turned. Captain Cwiklinski, master of the Polish passenger liner Batory, was not looking one May day in Manhattan six years ago, when a baldish little man with glasses came aboard on a 25? visitor's ticket and sailed as a stowaway. Unlike most stowaways, he soon dug first-class passage money from his pocket. He also owned up to the name of Gerhart Eisler. For unwittingly aiding in the escape of a key Communist agent, badly wanted in the U.S., Captain Cwiklinski got involved in a nasty, three...