Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ambitious Charles Hayden made it his habit to get to work at 8:30 a.m., systematically budgeted every day's time. Master of every brokerage trick, he drove himself unsparingly through the corporate intricacies of rubber, nickel, public utilities, sugar and oil. He amazed associates by his instantaneous decisions, nettled callers by clipping their conversation short when he foresaw their missions. Partner Stone was silent from the start. Banker Hayden never cultivated an assistant. Until he was stricken last month, he ran his own labyrinthine business by himself, piled up 89 directorships, 58 of which he still held...
...spacious, hearty Hotel Sherman, no manufacturers exhibited about 1,000 coin machines on an acre of ball room, for which they paid $1.50 a sq. ft., and in private show rooms most of which were equipped with bars. To their convivial customers they sold $5,000,000 worth of nickel games before the fun was over...
There are also a number of "pessimistic personal statements muttered by members of the Class. 'I never married, but I can't see that I saved a nickel by it. 'My four years at Harvard were wasted. I still can't keep the top stud in my dress shirt'. 'No spik Englies...
Died. Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, 67, last of Cleveland's realty and railroad-owning Van Sweringen Brothers; of heart disease; while riding to Hoboken, N. J. from Cleveland where he boarded a train of the Nickel Plate road, which the brothers built into the largest privately held U. S. rail system, nearly lost during Depression...
...champagne did not mean ebb tide for beer. Last week The American Brewer estimated the 1936 U. S. consumption at 53,000,000 bbls., enough to give each voter in last week's election 388 bottles. Best since Repeal, 1936 is no banner beer year. In 1914, nickel beer enabled U. S. brewers to sell 66,933,394 bbls., an all-time high...