Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...triple play among major railroads spelled the end of Mr. Crowley's leadership of Central, although he still remained a director. Ill health was given as the cause but Wall Street whispered that "Pat" Crowley had lost his fight with Central's bankers over Pennsylvania Railroad's desire for Nickel Plate trackage rights along Lake Erie (TIME, Oct. 12). Son of two Irish immigrants, with no schooling after the grammar grades, President Crowley followed the storybook route to success. His first job was in 1878 as messenger boy for the Erie. Telegrapher, station agent, train-despatcher all before...
...engineers, found the current issue bound within a cover of real aluminum, cold rolled to 2/1.000 in. thickness. The publishers stated that other magazines had appeared with metal foil applied to paper, but never before with a cover of rolled metal. Future issues may be bound in lead, copper, nickel, brass, steel, zinc, molybdenum if manufacturers can be induced to follow the example of Aluminum Co. of America and donate the metal...
...liver. Legalize whiskey, make it easy to obtain, and you will have a temperate nation and a civilized one. That may sound like plain speaking, but it's the truth." Before the War and Prohibition, only the cheapest and rawest of whiskey could be bought for a nickel a drink. It was freshly distilled, acrid grain alcohol, diluted with water and colored with caramel. It contained poisonous fusel oils, seared the stomach, appealed only to the poorest of dipsomaniacs...
Greatest hindrance to the plan was known to be Pennsylvania's request for trackage rights over the Nickel Plate along Lake Erie. Although this is a C. & O. road New York Central was unwilling to grant such a privilege to its powerful rival. In the plan filed with the Commission last week no mention was made of this embarrassing point and opinion was that it had been tacitly ignored for the moment by Pennsylvania in return for silence on New York Central's part on other points...
...Broadway Brevities, weekly smutsheet, last week reported: "Reefers are down to a nickel apiece in Harlem. Just ask for Benny...