Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Some nondescript fellows who were arriving in twos and threes at the same door glanced at their watches and then, nervously, at the big car where it crouched beside the curb, glittering in the grey air as if its glass and brass and nickel work were lit with a secret sunlight. For whom was it waiting...
...Kotzschmar Curtis. The cost of printing two and a third million copies of an advertisement is an item, and the cost of the paper for the same number of repetitions is another item; and besides it costs considerably more to produce a single copy of the Post than the nickel for which it retails (there have been instances, detected and stopped, in which many copies of the Post were purchased by enterprising merchants as a cheap way of getting old paper). So the advertiser's money goes toward paying production and other costs. Yet the advertising must be well...
Another instance was the reopening last week of hearings on the proposed Nickel Plate merger, after a recess of only a month. It had been hoped that a speedy conclusion might be reached, and a compromise made between the Van Sweringens and the minority stockholders of the Chesapeake and Ohio. Instead the minority stockholders promptly renewed their opposition with the new hearing. The most optimistic estimate now made for the final decision for or against the merger is that the Commission will make up its mind...
Others regarded the Watsonian version of the President's sentiments as simply a warning to speed up mergers now under consideration, notably the Van Sweringen Nickel Plate...
...deliberations of the I. C. C. in the Nickel Plate and other cases, as well as the slow progress made in the rail valuations, have afforded a quite legitimate excuse to railroad heads for not accomplishing more mergers in recent months...