Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Galactodendron Growers! Philoprogenetics! Butchers! Delicatessen! Read "Pork Prices Explained." Translates New Deal dreams. Nickel. Hiram Mann, 77 Wall...
...roast beef, warm rubber and ozone pervaded the 22nd floor of the Kansas City (Mo.) Hotel Kansas Citian last week. The odors arose from electric knives, heat applicators and ultraviolet light generators in operation. Those machines and a variety of similar medical machines, ornamented with shiny chromium and nickel, dials, gauges, thermometers, bulbs, motors, rheostats, pedals, levers, knobs and buttons were working because 400 physicians who are sincerely trying to put physical therapy on a respectable basis in the U. S. met in Kansas City to conduct a Congress of Physical Therapy...
...Mantis James is 54. Less than 20 years ago they were merely two notably successful Cleveland realtors?farm boys who had gone to the city, worked hard, saved their money and by shrewd investment piled up about $500,000 between them. Then they got into railroads, purchasing the decrepit Nickel Plate. By 1929, not long before they took their first & only vacation, they estimated their mutual fortune at $100,000,000. From their adjoining offices on the 36th floor of their Terminal Tower building they directed coal mines, trucking companies, street car lines, $150,000,000 worth of real estate...
...Allegheny Corp., representing all but one of the Van Sweringen railroads, Wheeling & Lake Erie, whose stock is pledged with RFC. The man who owns that block of Alleghany stock can hire & fire the executives of Chesapeake & Ohio (3,100 mi.), Pere Marquette (2,200 mi.), Erie (2,700 mi.). Nickel Plate (1,690 mi.) and have a voice in the reorganization of Missouri Pacific (12,000 mi.) and Chicago & Eastern Illinois (900 mi.). Also for sale is stock control of Van Sweringen Corp., representing the Van Sweringens' principal real estate holdings, including Cleveland's 52-story Terminal Tower...
Last week International Nickel Co. of Canada raised its quarterly dividend from 15? to 20? a share. Irving Air Chute raised its regular dividend from 10? to 15?, declared an extra of 10?. Reporting a sharp increase in half-year profits, Eastman-Kodak voted a 25? extra in addition to a regular dividend of $1.25. But the fattest extra dividend of the week was 50? paid the 14,190 stockholders of Timken Roller Bearing Co. of Canton, Ohio. During the first six months, Timken earned $4,522,000, nearly double the profits for the same period last year...