Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colombia could not fill the demand. After the War, when price-fixing ended, platinum rocketed above $170. Then in the early 1920's new platinum deposits were discovered in South Africa and in the late 1920's it began to be recovered in Canada's nickel mines as a byproduct. Not until Depression, however, did the price return to $45 and below...
Producers are holding platinum from the market, planning to use it as a hedge against inflation or as a speculation against war. International Nickel, said to have 60,000 to 100,000 oz. on hand, was reported in no hurry to unload at last week's high prices...
...high, moved in over the fringe of the town, where it began to behave like a tornado. It smashed windows in a score of houses, ripped off a porch, reduced a chicken coop to matchwood, hurled a bevy of screeching fowl high into the air. Prancing into the Nickel Plate Road yards, the funnel sucked up some heavy cans of calcium carbide, flung one 300 yd. against the side of a coal tower. After 20 min. the twister was lifted back into its mother cloud, drenching the ground with water as it rose...
...month the Narragansett Racing Association was incorporated and before the summer was done held its first race with paint still wet on the grandstand. The track takes 62% of all bets made, keeps the "breaks" (i. e., odd pennies left over after bets are paid off to an even nickel). Including the breaks, Narragansett's take last year was $2,174,000. Concessions, programs, gate receipts, added another $457,000. After handing out $717,000 for purses and paying all other expenses, Narragansett showed a clear profit of $507,000 for the year, which made it financially the best...
Aron Cohen to James Phelan Sr.: I observe, Mr. Phelan, that you are always satisfied with a nickel cigar while your son Jimmie buys nothing less than dollar cigars. How is that...