Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make it the supreme flop. Said Rose hoarsely: "With such labor pains, it's sure to be a big baby." It was. It was the hit of the Fair (and later of the San Francisco Fair). It was the only major concession at the Fair that made a nickel. In two seasons, it made Billy more than $1,000,000 clear profit. Billy knows the reason: "All God's chillun...
Hoboken didn't like McFeely. He was tough, glum, nickel-pinching, semi-illiterate and vindictive. When he left the seat of a dump cart for politics, he cultivated Democratic Boss Paddy Griffin so obsequiously that he was nicknamed "Me Too Barney." But when Paddy got sick in 1925, McFeely had what he needed to grab Paddy's power: he controlled the police and fire departments and thus almost all Democratic campaign funds...
...feeding into the Post the biggest of the nation's bylines, Lorimer made it the biggest nickel's worth on the market. Contributors ranged from Jack London, Rex Beach, Irvin Cobb and Ring Lardner to such post-World War I stars as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Clarence Budington Kelland, Katharine Brush and J. P. Marquand. What they gave the Post was not always their best, but it was their slickest, and it was good enough to push circulation beyond...
...choice between continuing the "Lampoon" and returning to left-over reading-period assignments should be a simple one. Even the cartoons, several of them by a prewar funnyman, will bring forth a heartier and more frequent chuckle than has resulted from local pictorial humor since candy bars were a nickel. In fact, the whole magazine, while seldom riotous, is the product of a wit that has too long been held in chains within the Bow Street Alcatraz...
This week N.F.T.W. officials were looking for some salvage in the wreck. Said one: "A.T. & T. was $2-minded. Without the strike we would have gotten the same $2 that Western Union got-a nickel an hour instead of a dime." But the fact was that N.F.T.W. had taken a bad licking, that it had been too poorly financed, too loosely organized to tackle as tough...