Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours later he shook off sleuthing reporters and disappeared alone in his $17,000 nickel-trimmed Duesenberg. Somewhere about the city he met John Francis Curry, leader of Tammany Hall and John H. McCooey, Democratic boss of Brooklyn. At 10 p. m. he returned in high spirits to his Mayfair apartment on Park Avenue...
...Though it carries no passengers yet, its empty trains have rumbled up & down under Eighth Avenue for a long time just for practice. Last week the periodic threat of city officials to open this line seemed near fulfillment. On Sept. 5, officials say, curious New Yorkers may pay a nickel to ride in the big, shiny new cars. But by law the system must be self-supporting within three years, and Mayor Walker's administration fears that if operated independently it will lose money, thereby losing also the cherished 5? fare, biggest plank in Tammany's political platform...
During the rush hour one morning last week in Manhattan, President Frank Hedley of Interborough Rapid Transit Co. boarded one of his own subway express trains at 14th Street like any other nickel-paying subway rider. As the train hurtled downtown, Mr. Hedley smelled smoke. About the train curled acrid yellow fumes. President Hedley did not need to be told something was seriously wrong. He at once took mastership of the situation. Shouldering his way through the pack of nervous passengers to the front car, he told the motorman to stop beside a local at the Bleecker Street station...
...such a trifling item that it cannot possibly be responsible for all the woes with which it is charged; or one may conclude that the total sum is so trivial that our attitude is analogous to attempting to sue our friend who borrowed from us last week a nickel for a telephone call...
...Nickel...