Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tenino, Wash., Mark O'Neil went fishing, caught one trout, dragged up one slot machine, in which he dropped a nickel. The machine did not work...
...begrudge the extra $28,560,000 for their terminal is undoubtedly the railroad centre of Cleveland?even if the Pennsylvania will run no trains into it. Every other rail-road that reaches Cleveland will use the Union terminal: namely, the New York Central, the Van Sweringens' own Nickel Plate, the much-coveted Wheeling & Lake Erie, the B. & O., the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis ("Big Four...
...civic luncheon was scheduled to begin the opening ceremonies. Newton D. Baker, who is personal counsel to the Van Sweringens, will preside. Speakers: Mayor John D. Marshall of Cleveland, President Patrick E. ("Pull Eighty Cars'") Crowley of New York Central, President W. L. Ross of Nickel Plate. The Brothers Van Sweringen will be present: the Brothers Taplin, in all probability, will not. The Taplins, inveterate Van Sweringen-baiters, as minority stockholders in the Wheeling, tried to hold up the building of the terminal, carried their case from court to court up to the U. S. Supreme Court, where they lost...
...Clayton Act proceedings against Nickel Plate for its control of Wheeling. This is purely a technical maneuver of astute Wabash Chairman William Henry Williams. Though Pennsylvania controls his road, Mr. Williams is generally considered to be acting independently in his merger moves. Both he and the Taplins would assemble precisely the same system: Lehigh, Wabash, Wheeling & Lake Erie, Western Maryland, Pittsburgh & West Virginia. Such a system would be most distasteful to the Van Sweringens and the B. & O., most agreeable to the Pennsylvania...
...stories always sell, but detective stories, War stories, even gangster stories are becoming "old stuff." Last week, William Randolph Hearst's New York American, ever mindful of the classics, solved its feature problem by simply beginning to reprint that 50-year-old saga, originally printed in 64 nickel novels, Deadwood Dick, Prince of the Road by Edward L. Wheeler. Readers past middle-age, to whom the yellow paperbacked books were forbid den in childhood, fondly renewed acquaint ance with their clandestine friends Calamity Jane, Fearless Frank, Catamount Diamond, Sitting Bull. Younger fry read wonderingly of the swaggering, snarling, laughing...