Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marshall Field had taken a hard look at a set of hard facts. No. 1: circulation had shrunk 40,000 (to 335,000) in the three months since he raised his price to a nickel. (But Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Tribune, still 3?, was rocking along at a 1,100,000-a-day clip.) No. 2: newsprint, $61 a year ago, had gone up to $85 a ton. No. 3: hard-headed John S. Knight, whose Daily News is the Sun's landlord, had raised the rent $800,000 a year. (The late Daily News Publisher Frank...
Parking Place. In Portland, Ore., a drunk, draped over a parking meter, was removed by police, protested: "I put in my nickel; I got 20 minutes more...
Rambunctious Robert Ralph Young and the stodgy Association of American Railroads had long been incompatible. Last week Bob Young finally packed up his three roads (Chesapeake & Ohio, Nickel Plate, Pere Marquette) and left A.A.R.'s house. As he left, he fired a Parthian shot: The A.A.R. "has encouraged . . . noncompetitive practices," thus also encouraged Federal antitrust action. It has fought to perpetuate discriminatory freight rates helpful to the Eastern, bank-run roads which dominate its affairs. "To squeeze the last dollar of revenue from obsolete equipment . . . technological development has been discouraged." To Young, wartime difficulties were not a sufficient excuse...
Judgment. In Manhattan, Thomas Spurlock posed as a deaf-mute, handed cards to passers-by asking for help, got a nickel from one, growled: "Cheapskate," got 60 days...
...Paid in Full. In Detroit, John Sargent found his wife in a bar, shot her dead, gave the bartender a nickel to call the police...