Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Harding. When I lived in San Francisco in the old days I kept a cigar store and sold cigars to Jimmy Phelan (like we called him as a young man) and also his father. Jimmy bought $1 ones and his father, who had all the money, bought nickel cheroots...
...said to the old man one day: "How is it you smoke nickel cigars and Jimmy smokes $1 ones?" The old man said: "Well, he has a rich father...
...short hauls and being kept constantly busy; they knew that the GOP was the rich men's party and that all Republicans were living on hopes, after "three long years" of the New Deal. One jehu tells of a $2.95 trip and the outstretched hand for the nickel in change! Another tells of hauling six and receiving a thin dime...
...financial activities aggregating about $341,000. Of this, almost $90,000 is spent for new books every year and another $17,000 for binding pamphlets, leafiest, catalogues, etc., and for re-binding worn out volumes. Of the total income of over a quarter million dollars, the University collects nickel fines from students to the extent of about $400 every year. It also has a constant expenditure for gas of $.53 encoded in this $341,000 budget...
...important combinations of principles or methods already known," as a result of work which had set him on the road to fortune, if not fame, 31 years ago. Mr. Marsh's profitable discovery was made in 1905. He fused a new alloy called Chromel-20% chromium, 80% nickel- which is still the only alloy or metal (except costly platinum) capable of offering prolonged electric resistance without burning out. Of this alloy or its variants are now made the wire elements which glow in electric stoves, heaters, curling irons, percolators, toasters, sterilizers, waffle irons, cigaret lighters, bed pads. Such...