Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fourth Best. What Robert Young had got from the Van Sweringens was: 1) the profit-fat Chesapeake & Ohio Railway; 2) through the Alleghany Corp., the controlling interest in three other roads which sprawl across the U.S. heartland-the New York, Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel Plate), the Pere Marquette, and the Wheeling and Lake Erie (see map). Last week, in Cleveland's Terminal Tower, the C & O's board of directors voted to merge all four railroads, make them one operating company...
...broken-down fiction magazine. They added a few magazines of their own, and reached a pulp peak during the long presidency of Smith's son, Ormond, who loved fine wines and rare first editions. Ormond Smith kept presses busy pouring out dime novels (they usually cost a nickel...
What Field got for his money (guesstimated price: $100,000) was an old-fashioned print shop in Montgomery, Ala. and an old-fashioned farm journal that loses a nickel on every 25?-a-year subscription but makes it all back and more in advertising at $2.50 a column inch. Two of its eight pages are devoted to stodgy editorial matter, the rest to ads, some offering farm equipment, many hawking sex books, love drops, patent medicines...
Across the Border? Since WPB has denied auto manufacturers the right to use nickel in their new civilian cars, the motor industry is up against the problem of getting chrome trim (nickel is required as a base for chrome plating). Because the U.S. likes shiny metal, some considered trying chrome paint or stainless steel...
...became scarce when hoarders buried and manufacturers melted down copper and nickel coins. Then the Government changed the Brazilian monetary unit from the milreis to the cruzeiro. The paper cruzeiros were ordered printed in the U.S. German submarines sank the entire shipment. But last week an end to Brazil's currency famine was at hand. Frantic officials had rushed a ton of new one and two cruzeiro notes (value: 5? and 10?) from the U.S. to Rio, hoped presently to retire the aspirin tablets...