Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizen who spent his airplane ticket #1 early last fall and is now down at heel can count upon his toes his chances of going barefoot. For the OPA's intent to keep shoe rationing "at about the current level" meant the civilian would get not more than two pairs of leather shoes a year. (In 1941 he used 3.7 pairs, and almost that much last year...
...paid sharpers from $5 to $15 for "reservations" (the relief trains had no reserved seats). Florida's black market business in regular Pullman reservations continued to boom. Up rose President Andrew G. O'Rourke of the Greater Miami Hotel Association to declare: most of the black market ticket-selling was the work of "an unethical gang of thugs from the North, and not by hotel porters or Miamians." He had hardly subsided when FBI men arrested as scalpers 16 Miami ticket agents and clerks, 14 Miami hotel flunkies, and one Miami cabby. J. Edgar Hoover said the Miami...
...Bennet, 73, a Wall Street lawyer who served three terms in the House before World War I, polled more votes than Tammany's candidate, James H. Torrens, 69, received on the Democratic ballot. The 3.226 votes that Torrens got on the leftist American Labor Party's ticket were the margin of his victory. Even more important, Republican Bennet won the only two sections that lie wholly in Harlem...
Besides patronizing a flourishing black market ($20 extra for a ticket to New York), stranded tourists tried fantastic gags to get railroad space home. Typical: one woman told an overworked ticket clerk last week that she had to get to a dying daughter in Philadelphia. When he found a canceled space for her the same day, she said "Oh, but I didn't want to go until March 6" (right after the Hialeah race track closes). The Florida East Coast sold out all the seats they had in 32 minutes one morning last week...
fewer acres, more tractors and better housing. For their ticket to Utopia they have loaded Federal Reserve member country banks with $17.5 billion of demand deposits-almost three times 1940'$ $6 billion...