Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sample of it, and Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, meteorite hunter of the University of New Mexico, set out to trace one. It took him two months to find several fragments in Norton County, Kans. One of them weighed 130 Ibs. and was made of stony material mixed with globules of nickel and iron...
During World War II, tall, stringy J. D. Shelley made good money as a construction worker. His wife Ethel Lee had a job as a maid. Like many other Negro families, the Shelleys scraped and pinched to get every possible nickel into the bank. They had six children. They lived in a savage St. Louis slum, and they ached for quiet, decency and a home of their...
...four sneak previews, audiences liked what they saw. Cracked Glass: "We are now solidly in a position to finance another million-dollar picture, but we haven't got a nickel for a cigar...
Discrimination. In Bangor, Me., police removed a playful citizen from the parking meter to which he clung, despite his protest that he had put in his nickel and still had 35 minutes...
...million surplus. He cut yearly expenditures from $105 million in 1938 to $92 million in 1943, slashed the payroll from 17,000 to 10,000, cut the property tax almost in half, established a civil service system, created the job of state "business manager" to watch every nickel. His "Count Ten" labor act, passed in 1939, was the first post-Wagner Act law which forced labor to show at least partial responsibility. It required a 10-to-30-day cooling-off period, cut strikes...