Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shares of Pere Marquette R. R. stock, the Van Sweringen brothers increased their holdings in this road to 280,000 shares. This is 40% of the stock and gives them control of directors' meetings. More important, it obviates sharp bargaining between the Pere Marquette and the Nickel Plate System that they still propose...
Franc pieces and two-franc pieces were minted into mountainous piles for the first time since the War; 88,000,000 francs in metallic currency were ordered struck, of this 38,000,000 in "small change," nickel and aluminum 5, 10 and 25 centime pieces...
...copper centime coins will gradually be withdrawn from circulation and replaced by nickel and aluminum. The bronze francs will go out side by side with paper money, which they partially replace...
...ruined Timgad earn an indulgent wave of his hand but at St. Augustine's tomb he says: "Plumb out of date, the whole business . . . I'm talkabout the whole possetucky? the whole kit-an'-boodle. . . . The human race has got to make progress. . . . The Almighty doesn't care a nickel about anything except our makin' that progress. . . . The kind He patronizes are the boys that got the plans, all ready for a bigger and better city the morning after the earthquake...
Like the outsides of the small bundles, the insides were all alike. At a five-&-ten-cent store Herman had purchased some six dozen nickel-plated ash trays. Commuters in that office building compared gifts going out on the 5:15. They showed their prizes to their wives; in voices trembling with affection they told the story of humble Herman and his Christmas spirit...