Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to previous schedule a new Jefferson nickel was to appear this month as a successor to the buffalo nickel which has been in circulation since 1913. Last week the Bureau of the Mint announced that the public would have to wait till October. Reason: The Federal Fine Arts Commission did not like the original design (TIME, May 2), insisted on a new style of lettering on the coin, on changes in the detail of Thomas Jefferson's head on the obverse, on Artist Felix Schlag's redesigning the reverse so as to show Jefferson's home...
...nation's problem, not merely the South's." It is the conviction of eight Southern Governors that the chief barrier to the South's economic improvement is a system of freight-rate disparities which favor the North. Last week, before an Interstate Commerce Commission examiner in Buffalo, N. Y., the second battle in their campaign to remove these disparities came to an end. In Birmingham, Ala., three months ago, the South presented its side of the complex controversy; in Buffalo, the North had the floor. ICC will now ponder whose victory would be best...
...price differential in effect abolishes an umbrella it has held over the independents. With its plants strategically placed. Big Steel has little fear of losing its present share of business, but some competitors in less favorable spots last week faced heavy losses. Bethlehem Steel's factories at Buffalo and Sparrows Point, Md., for example, had to cut their price for steel plate $2 more than did Big Steel in order to equalize freight difference and the effects of removing price differentials. Bluff Chairman Ernest Tener Weir of National Steel Corp., whose modern plant at Weirton...
...suited for producing carrier currents of different electrical frequencies, tried it out with gratifying success. The currents are separated in pitch by 300 cycles. A generator adapted to Western Union's purposes costs about $1,000. By this technique the company sends telegrams from Manhattan to Chicago, Washington, Buffalo, Atlanta. Practical effect of the Hammond-type generator will be to reduce the number of wires necessary for intercity service, thus saving a sizable chunk of maintenance costs as the unnecessary wires are retired from service...
...Track Meet (Sun. 3 p.m., 5 p.m., NBC-Blue). America's biggest competition of amateur track stars at Buffalo...