Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cities with subways, or with plans for subways, watched New York City last week. New York has the largest subway system in the U. S. and the question was: have rides-for-a-nickel joined the jitney bus and the horse...
...William Ellis Corey, 62, the intervening (1903-11) U. S. Steel president, heads no concern; directs several of the most potent of their kind-American Banknote, Baldwin Locomotive, Bethlehem Steel, International Nickel, Mack Trucks, Montana Power. . . . When in the U. S. he lives on Fifth Avenue, close to Manhattan's Metropolitan Art Museum...
...Sweringens (now Chesapeake & Ohio) would take the Chesapeake & Ohio, Hocking Valley, the Nickel Plate, the Pere Marquette, the Erie, the Pittsburgh & West Virginia, and share in the Lehigh Valley and Wheeling & Lake Erie...
...fire-engines and fireengines, but a whole laboratory class in Boylston will rush to the windows to watch one rush down Massachusetts Avenue (although some hint at ulterior motives for this interest). Airplanes are a commonplace; the single shells have been on the river for weeks; roadsters gleaming with nickel are not rare--still they attract the attention of undergraduates. And so, when Charlle Paddock comes to the Stadium this week, he need have no fear that his ninety-five records will attract only a handful of track men and a bored reporter. The Stadium will not give a hollow...
...week, leaving behind him in a meeting room Presidents William Wallace Atterbury of the Pennsylvania, Patrick Edward Crowley of the New York Central, Daniel Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio and John J. Bernet of the Erie, together with M. J. & O. P. Van Sweringen of the Chesapeake & Ohio (old Nickel Plate) group. They all, with the aid of lesser officials who were also present, had been discussing the consolidation of the railroads that operate between the Atlantic and the Mississippi, and north of the Ohio-the Eastern roads. For four years there have been such discussions and since last October...