Word: coined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Cambridge police arrested the trio, they found a vending machine, coin box, several screw drivers and a glove in the car, Breen reported...
...money-making Government operation is making money. Thus the nationwide coin shortage is actually a boon for the Administration, which has embarked on a crash program to double the Treasury output at the Department's two mints (Philadelphia and Denver). A far richer windfall for the Government, however, is the Coinage Act of 1965, passed by Congress in July to cut the multimillion-ounce yearly drain from the U.S.'s dwindling silver supply.* The law stipulates that all new dimes and quarters must be silverless and the silver content of half dollars trimmed from...
...result, the Government, which sells coins to banks at their face value, will soon be minting unheard-of profits. With the new copper-nickel alloy coins authorized by the bill, the cost of turning out a dime will drop from 9.5? to .6? quarters, from 23.6? to 1.5? and half dollars, from 47.3? to 26.5?. Revenues from coin manufacture will leap from some $100 million in 1965 to $1 billion...
Turning that coin, what's bad about organized labor is bad for the U.S. And organized labor today is afflicted by a multitude of problems, some glaring, some subtle, and virtually all springing from failures to keep pace with change. For one thing, the labor movement is middle-aged and increasingly middleclass, powerful and sometimes arrogant, but without the lean, hungry and imaginative leaders of the past. For another, unions are faced with a new industrial revolution in automation, which promises to alter the very role and function of human labor...
...white man for his trade. Among Nigeria's richest businessmen is Alhaji Sanusi Dantata 46, who buys and ships much of the rich Kano region's peanut crop. Dantata's agents last year bought 84,000 tons from small farmers, paid with traditional handfuls of coin counted out in dusty village squares. Sir Odumegwu Ojukwu 66, knighted shortly before independence, started off by importing dried fish for resale to the nonfishing Nigerians then decided to ship the fish inland himself instead of leaving the job to others. He also amassed the country's largest fleet...