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MONOPOLY (from page one) the board on the streets of Atlantic City, New Jersey. He approached Parker Brothers about producing the game and was rejected. As Magie had, Darrow manufactured his new game independently, and experienced wild success during the Christmas season of 1934 at a Philadelphia department store, with a selling price of $2. • When Parker Brothers observed the sales performance of Monopoly, they changed their mind and purchased the game’s copyrights from Darrow, along with granting him royalties. Parker Brothers introduced the game of Monopoly on November 5, 1935.

copies of the game per week. In 1936, the game was licensed for sale outside the United States. • The Monopoly board contains 22 streets, divided into eight color groups containing two or three streets. As players move around the board, they purchase property, varying from $60 to $400 in price. The goal is to drive the other players into bankruptcy. • A player must own all of a color group in order to build houses or hotels. Each game contains 32 houses and 12 hotels.

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Elizabeth Taylor, and Marilyn Monroe boosted the popularity of red lipstick. By the 1930s, Vogue magazine declared that lipstick was “the most important cosmetic for women.” During World War II, lipstick colors became political, such as the popular Victory Red shade. • New Jersey chemist Hazel Bishop created the first long-lasting, non-smearing lipstick in her kitchen and it hit the stores in 1950, immediately becoming all the rage. The first flavored lipstick debuted in 1973, manufactured by Bonne Bell and dubbed “Lip Smackers.”

* On Nov. 5, 1605, King James I of England learns that a plot to blow up the Parliament building with some 20 barrels of gunpowder has been foiled. Guy Fawkes was taken into custody and revealed that he was part of a conspiracy to annihilate England’s Protestant government. Every year Fawkes is burned in effigy in remembrance of the plot.

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get a 2 percent increase beginning with their December 2017 check - paid in January 2018. Having said and explained all that, I will now wait for my email inbox to be crammed with messages complaining about the stinginess of the 2 percent increase. It happens every year. People will tell me that their rent has gone up, their grocery bills have gone up, their utility charges have gone up -- all at more than a 2 percent rate. “So how can the government tell me I am only due a 2 percent increase in my Social Security?” And yet, many economists agree that the CPI measurement used for the Social Security COLA actually overstates inflation for senior citizens. That is why one of the commonly suggested long-range reform proposals for Social Security is a reduction in the annual COLA amount. I can count on one hand the number of Social Security beneficiaries I’ve talked to over the years who think that is a good idea. Finally, other automatic adjustments to Social Security provisions will take place in January. And these changes are not based on inflation, as measured by the CPI. Instead, they are based on increases in the average national wage. For example, the maximum amount of income subject to Social Security tax goes up from $127,200 to $128,700. And the amount of money a Social Security beneficiary under age 66 can earn with no reductions in his or her benefits increases to $17,040 next year, compared to $16,920 in 2017. * * * If you have a Social Security question, Tom

And here is an interesting sidelight to the COLA history story. If we were still following the original Social Security COLA law passed in 1972, there would be no increase this year. In fact, there wouldn’t have been an increase in the last 10 years! Why? Well, when automatic annual cost of living increases were first introduced, the law said that a COLA would only be granted in any given year if inflation, again as measured by the CPI, was 3 percent or more for the prior year. Back then, inflation was always running at way more than 3 percent per year, so no one gave that provision much thought. But then in the mid-1980s, the government finally got a handle on inflation, and the numbers started going down. In 1986, the CPI measured inflation at 1.3 percent. Because that was under the 3 percent cut off point, no Social Security increase was scheduled. Well, you can maybe guess what happened. Social Security beneficiaries went into an uproar. They demanded some form of compensation from their government leaders. Politicians panicked. And sure enough, the requirement that the CPI go up by at least 3 percent was immediately rescinded and seniors got their 1.3 percent COLA increase, and have been getting annual increases ever since, no matter how low the inflation rate is. And here is another interesting historical footnote about COLAs that demonstrates the power of the senior citizen lobby in this country. In other words, when seniors say “more,” Congress says “how much more?” The 1972 COLA law specified that Social Security recipients would get an increase beginning the following year for inflation measured in the prior year. So for example, when inflation was measured at 8 percent in 1974, beneficiaries started getting an 8 percent increase in their January 1975 checks. Here is the problem with that. As most of you know, Social Security checks are paid one month in arrears. In other words, the January Social Security check is paid in February. Well, seniors didn’t like waiting that extra month for their Social Security increase and they demanded the law be changed. And sure enough, Congress changed it. So for many years now, the law has said that you get the increase beginning with the December check (payable in January). So the current  batch Pricesof  61Hours million Social Security beneficiaries will

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I have enclosed the mark that is on the bottom of a German beer stein. It is in the shape of a bear. The head forms the lid, which is attached to the base with a hinge. Also included with the mark is the numberletter combo “5L.” What can you tell me about the maker, vintage and value of my stein?

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