Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently Mr. Stringfellow and his fellow executives were troubled. The Edison battery functions because, when iron oxide and nickel hydrate (suitably packed in a battery box) are charged with electricity, a chemical reaction is set up which enables the battery to discharge itself in any vehicle or spot where its pent-up energy may be needed. The iron used in the batteries comes from Sweden because Swedish iron is unusually free from impurities, but traces of nickel were found however in a $40,000 shipment of Swedish iron which recently reached the Edison factory at West Orange. Dared the company...
...safe came the sacrosanct loose-leaf relic. Mr. Stringfellow flipped through the finger-marked pages, read an 11-year-old question: "If there is any nickel in iron, does it adversely affect the life of the cell...
Adman and Author Bruce Barton entered unopposed the Republican primaries for a by-election for Congress in New York's silk-stocking 17th District. Said he: "The 17th pays a tremendous slice of the nation's tax bill. . . . Any nickel-in-the-slot district in the South or West gets more consideration in Washington. This is wrong...
...experience. Nothing new to them was sending six Harlem Negroes to jail for bootlegging. New, however, was the evidence on which the 'leggers were convicted. Exhibited for the jury was a unique liquor sold wholesale at $7 for a five gallon tin, retail at a nickel a pony. According to the thoroughgoing New York Times, it was colored with orange peel and possessed "an aromatic bouquet with a heavier underlying odor like that of tobacco steeped in water." The Times went on to add that it "created in the drinker a sensation of self-centered power, while the images...
...nickel feelings quickly vanished when the detective magazine in which she had seen Irwin's picture awarded her $1,000, gave her an airplane ride to Manhattan, introduced her at a night club, interviewed her on the radio. ''I ddn t know whether I'll return to my job as pantry-maid or not," she said...