Word: tickets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MOVIEMEN have put so much pressure on Congressmen to revoke the 20% tax on movie admissions that the House is likely to pass a repeal bill, even though theater owners have no intention of passing the estimated $200 million saving on to ticket buyers. But the bill will have tougher going in the Senate, which fears demands that excise taxes on jewelry, furs and luggage also be dropped...
When it was all over, officials pronounced the festival a box-office success; ticket sales had covered expenses. Granada chambermaids began rearranging hotel bathrooms; a good many had been pressed into service as emergency bedrooms for the festival crowd...
...honor and chief speaker at the Democrats' Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Portland, a political rumor whooshed in ahead of him. Its component parts: 1) Independent, ex-Republican Morse, whose term in the Senate does not expire until 1956, will run for Senator in 1954, on the Democratic ticket and against Republican Guy Cordon; 2) if Morse wins, his pull on independent and liberal Republican voters might also sweep a Democratic governor into office; 3) Morse would resign his present Senate seat to take on his new one, and 4) the Democratic governor would appoint a Democrat to fill...
...G.I.s in Japan raised more than $900 to buy a round-trip ticket for a Japanese girl who wanted to study at Baptist Way-and College in Plainview, Texas. In Korea more than $500 was contributed to educate a Korean theological student and support his family...
Moving Salesroom. Trans World Airlines opened mobile ticket offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles. In each city, a truck, equipped with reservation counter, upholstered benches and two-way radiotelephone, travels on a fixed route, offering information, reservations and tickets...