Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Delaware & Hudson. Mr. Loree, grizzly-bear of railroads, Harriman's successor in talent, conferred for nearly three hours. His conferees represented four trunk-line adversaries: the Pennsylvania, the New York Central, the Baltimore & Ohio and the Van Sweringen merger group (once planned to be based on the Nickel Plate, now planned to be based on the Chesapeake & Ohio...
...fight he hooked to the chin and made Sharkey jerk his legs up when he hit him" in the stomach. When the decision went to Risko, Sharkey struck a pose, stared disdainfully at the top balcony. "Yaah," yelled the holder of a $3 balcony seat, "you look like a nickel's worth of holy mackerel." "Honest John" Risko, shifty, awkward, hard-to-hurt, who has beaten Paulino, Delaney and Berlen-bach, may now be matched with Champion James Joseph Tunney...
...miner sang: "How much money does a clergyman need, for reading out the gospel and mumbling the creed? He lives at home and he doesn't pay rent-if he gets a plugged nickel, he's a very lucky gent...
...community. In the back of the Atheists' report is a list of the Board of Directors of the A. A. A. A. Of these, several are men well-known to the world for qualities other than their godlessness. One is E. Haldeman-Julius, publisher of nickel books; another is Ira D. Cardiff, noted botanist...
Everyone reads periodicals and everyone reflects that income from subscriptions and advertisements must be profitable. The nickel paid for a copy of the Saturday Evening Post does not pay for the cost of paper alone. But the $8,000 that the magazine charges for a full-page advertisement in black and the $11,500 for four-color pages yield profits which financiers are beginning to exploit. Each reader may be a prospect for the sale of such securities, just as almost every user of electricity in the U. S. has been offered investments in his "home" public utility...