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Word: scalpers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1952-1952
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...enough that a scalper, a common crook charges eight dollars for end-zone seats, but the HAA charges $4.80, the same price that they charge a man for a seat high on the fifty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT PRICE TICKETS? | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

Whenever Manhattan's key-hole columnists tire of puffing their friends or scalping their public enemies, they refresh their spirits by jealously skinning one another. Last week the knives came out with a vengeance. And, fittingly enough, Walter Winchell, who is the busiest scalper, this time got the closest skinning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What's the President Say? | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

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