Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...armored limousine was junked in Moab, Utah, after a wreck. Last week I paid 5? to see "Al Capone's $20,000, bulletproof, V16 Cadillac limousine" which was in a side-show at the Louisiana State Fair in Shreveport. I don't begrudge the nickel, but I would like to know if Al had two such automobiles or if what I saw was just another Fair farce...
Contrary to first reports from Moab, the Capone Cadillac was not junked but repaired after its accident. Reader Butler apparently was not cozened out of his nickel...
Edward Ballard had a gambler's impulsive temperament, but in running his casino he was shrewd and businesslike. No local resident was ever permitted in his gambling rooms, no liquor was ever allowed, all patrons had to wear evening dress, no employe was permitted to wager a nickel. One year Gamester Ballard made $1,000,000. He bought the West Baden Springs Hotel, and later, with a Detroit gambler, Robert ("Silver Bob") Alexander, also opened a gambling place at Miami. After a time Ballard withdrew from the Association. In the same era he plunged into the circus business...
...unloading provisions to curing Eskimo diseases. Although the new plan is frankly an experiment, and if it fails, the disposition of the fund will go back into the hands of the Cabinet; still it is no longer ninety-eight per cent one way and two the other. The nickel now has both a "heads" and a "tails...
...Allegheny Metal" contains 8% nickel, 18% chrome...