Word: tickets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...financial scheme involves peddling $1.90 reserved grandstand seats to the May 10 Red Sox-White Sox game at Fenway Park for $1.25. The Council will bank 75 cents on each ticket...
...plan will sell reserve grandstand seats, normally marketed at $1.90, for $1.25. Thus the German Scholarship fund will make 75 cents on each ticket, supplied at tax cost by the Red Sox organization...
...chronically resulted in two serious faults: 1) the nomination of a vice president who was a nonentity; 2) the nomination of a vice president who believed in quite different principles from the man with whom he was running. Consider a few examples: Garner was put on the Democratic ticket with Roosevelt in 1932 as a result of a deal. He fought many of the Roosevelt policies in the Senate and if he had become President he would have destroyed a large segment of the New Deal legislation...
Nelson, as it turned out, did very well; his winners got him $3,600 for a $3 ticket. But the girls' ticket, the day's only entry that listed all six winners correctly, paid off $300,000. Mercedes and Elena Josefina took the windfall calmly, perhaps because they could not understand just how much money $300,000 is. Mercedes is eight years old and is in the fifth grade; Elena Josefina is four, goes into kindergarten next year...
Maestro. In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Patrolman Ed MacNeil spotted four-year-old Aubrey H. Osborne Jr. driving casually along in a model T Ford, watched openmouthed as Aubrey parked perfectly after being signaled to the curb, wrote out a ticket to the boy's father, who protested: "Why, he's been driving for two years...