Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were William Wallace Atterbury, strident and aggressive president of Pennsylvania R. R.; Patrick Edward ("Pull Eighty Cars") Crowley, diffident and watchful president of New York Central R. R.; Daniel Willard, precise and conciliatory president of Baltimore & Ohio; and the Brothers Van Sweringen, urbane and alert owners of Chesapeake & Ohio-Nickel Plate. Luncheon was served them in their chairs. Nine hours later they arose together after concluding an agreement so momentous they did not trust themselves to announce it to the public. Because President Hoover had pressed them into this conference, because he was moral sponsor for their negotiations, and because...
Chesapeake & Ohio (13,000 mi.) would add to its Nickel Plate, Erie and Pere Marquette, control of Lehigh Valley (to be purchased for $35,000,000 from Pennsylvania which would retain trackage rights). This system's other lines would include Bessemer & Lake Erie (from U. S. Steel Corp.), Wheeling & Lake Erie, Chicago & Eastern Illinois...
...part of the municipal debt which is limited by law. The unified system would become self-supporting instead of imposing its present annual tax burden of $13,500,000 on the citizenry. But most tangible factor of all is that the subway-farer would be assured forever of his nickel ride, a prime political issue in New York which re-elected Mayor Hylan in 1921, Mayor Walker...
...While Dr. Hutchison's motive was to help airmen, his invention may have the far more momentous effect of overcoming the carbon monoxide (CO) evil in motor car traffic. His Moto-Vita, which can be car traffic. His Moto-Vita, which is a bridge of platinum and nickel wires (weight i½ Ib.) over which the exhaust gases pass. This bridge is electrically connected, through a tiny battery, to a sensitive ammeter on the pilot's (chauffeur's) instrument board. If the fuel mixture is too rich, the unburned gasoline vapor-hydrogen, carbon monoxide-will cause...
...automobile may be sold because the buyer's wife likes the color of the paint, the feel of the upholstery, the glitter of the nickel-plated gadgets; but more probably because the demonstrator can say to the buyer, "Now, just slide over here and take the wheel yourself...