Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Theta Upsilon Fraternity pledges at Northern Illinois College of Optometry got even with Senior John Santarelli after he put them through an initiation "Hell Week." After dressing him in misfit shoes and clothes, they gave him a nickel spending money, put him on a plane at Chicago, and sent him off to Kansas City...
...Sales of nickel candy bars in Radcliffe dormitories and off-yard houses will help pay the current deficit of the "Forty and Nine" yearbook, Rita Guggenheim '49, Editor-in-chief, announced yesterday. It was estimated that the "Forty and Nine" is running about $600 to $1000 in debt...
...gimmick in the five cent beer is the small glass that surrounds it. The publicity conscious barkeep in New York now in the national spotlight is supposed to use a six-ounce stein for his nickel brew. Local pourers suspect his heads foam unusually high. Another tavern on 96th Street sells ten cent beer in nine-ounce glasses, and five cent helpings in four-ounce steins. The profit here still goes to the clever samaritan who paid for the television set over your head...
...figure that the average barrel costs a little over $12, it's easy to calculate the profit on a keg. If the elbow bender is to gain on a nickel beer, it has to hold at least five ounces. At that price, it's impossible for any bartender to clear operating costs, much less make an additional profit...
...Americans sure are funny people," said one of the workmen. "They'll cut each other's throat for a nickel, but when one of them gets in trouble, they'll sure get out and swamp for him." No one thought of pay. "I haven't heard the word mentioned," growled Raymond Hill, the city engineer who directed the operations...