Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nickel Plate Railroad.. 1.205d 4,410d Chesapeake & Ohio...
...singer had been an Italian tenor who had spent his last nickel on the claque, the ovation could not have been bigger than the one which swept Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week after the first-act curtain of Die Walküre. The singer was Soprano Lotte Lehmann, a tall, stately German making her Metropolitan debut with a name already important in Europe and Chicago (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930 et seq.). Last week she was nervous. Her husband. Herr Otto Krause who left his insurance business in Vienna to hear the performance, knew it. The battered...
George Peek was born 59 years ago at Polo, Ill. His sympathy for farmers was not acquired wholly as result of his experience in the plow business, where he found that "you can't make a nickel off of a busted customer." Still clear in his mind is the picture of his family's eviction from their farm at Polo when the mortgage was foreclosed. In 1922, year before he left the Moline Plow Co., he and Hugh Johnson wrote a pamphlet called Equality for Agriculture which, like the later McNary-Haugen bill, permitted the farmer to grow...
...dollars. Hens, ducks, etcetera, are all bought at regular market prices by the pound. Pigeons and turtles both range from a quarter to 85 cents and a Louisiana bullfrog cost a dollar. Oppossums are $4 a pair and copperheads are $8 each. Crayfish and snails both cost about a nickel each and salamanders are 25 cents each...
Fortnight ago Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum announced that Sir Robert Ludwig Mond had given it Charles Sandre's toy army. Sir Robert is a trustee of the Royal Ontario Museum, a brother of the late British nickel tycoon, Alfred Moritz Mond, first Baron Melchett. While the Museum was waiting for the army to arrive, its director, Dr. Charles Trick Currelly, called the colorful collection "effective anti-war propaganda. . . . Just as in arms and armor the diabolical nature of the whole thing is revealed, so we will show the public how Napoleon's gay uniforms...