Word: walkup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the telephone rang in the six-room walkup apartment of Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Cohen of The Bronx, Mrs. Cohen, a 42-year-old grandmother, lifted the receiver. Carefully she answered the three questions put to her by the man at the other end of the line. At that point, Mrs. Cohen walked into pandemonium. She had hit the $28,000 jackpot on CBS's Sing It Again giveaway program...
Antoine and Antoinette (Siritzky International) are a young Parisian couple. Antoine (Roger Pigaut) works in a printing plant, Antoinette (Claire Maffei) in a five &,ten. They live in a two-room walkup. He yearns to own a motorcycle, she to live in a new apartment. One day they hold a winning lottery ticket that underwrites their dreams. But before he can collect, Antoine loses the stub...
...talk that Air Affairs has an ax to grind. But every large airline except TWA helped with early contributions of $100 and up, and seven have agreed to plug the magazine with copies in every plane. Promoter Pardridge is already talking about moving Air Affairs from his fifth-floor walkup flat & office in Washington, D.C. Next month he will ask his hand-picked board of trustees (Sir William P. Hildred, Laurance S. Rockefeller, Quincy Wright, et al.) for a raise in pay, from the $250 a month he started business on. He expects...
...loans from eastern friends (among them UNRRA Director Herbert H. Lehman). She went on paying the highest mine wages in the state, sent most of her salary ($12,000 at the peak) back into the business. Though most fellow Denverites thought her wealthy, she lived in a two-room walkup-except during 1934-37; when she was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury...