Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that jewelry makers are denied all use of tin, copper, aluminum, chrome, nickel and iridium, these pieces of raffia, felt, wood, clay and glass are the latest thing-and almost the only thing left-in costume ("junk") jewelry. Whoop-dedoo of the spring season are pieces like a pair of red felt lips clutching a pink felt rose...
...drugstore in Times Square. Into this "poor man's Sardi's," every noon, swarm the occupants of a thousand hall bedrooms, to eat and table-hop, jam the phone booths, swap hard-luck stories, pick up casting tips. Lately they have also been coming to buy a nickel's worth of reading matter...
...year-old frame farmhouse, tall, strapping Ralph Delair crawled out of bed at 5:30, pulled on long underwear, two heavy shirts, ankle-high shoes, blue denim overalls, two sweaters, a thick mackinaw, a battered felt hat. He started a roaring wood fire in the nickel-plated kitchen range, touched a match to ash and hackberry logs in the living-room fireplace...
Manila was a dead city. The people wandered dully through the streets, prodded on by the bayonets of Jap sentries in civilian clothes. Food and money were scarce. The only stores still open were Japanese bazaars. A package of rice which once cost a nickel now cost 25?. A single match sold for 15 centavos (7½?). Trolleys and a single bus line were still running. But except for these and the dozen arrogant, sleek cars of Japanese officials and their friends, the streets were bare of traffic...
...will cost the Treasury theoretical money to make these metal savings, since the paper profit it makes through seigniorage will be less. In 1,000 of the current brand of nickels (monetary value $50), the cost to the Treasury of the copper and nickel is only $2.05, yielding a seigniorage of $47.95. In the new silver nickels-thanks largely to the Treasury's own policy of paying 71.11? per ounce for newly mined U.S. silver-the metal will cost $38 per thousand, yielding only $12 seigniorage. But the silver would be bought and buried anyhow. So in real money...