Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could beat customers to the counters. As many as 150,000 breathless shoppers stormed the basement on the first day of a new sale-Boston fishermen and Harvard facultymen, U.S. Senators and Back Bay housewives. "Proper Bostonians," says a Filene vice president, "have always had an eye for a nickel...
...York Evening Mail police reporter, a sometime literary critic, since 1917 had worked with savage intensity on a huge (more than 9,000,000 words) "history of people." Unpublished and unfinished, Gould's An Oral History of Our Time was illegibly scribbled in hundreds of nickel notebooks, which he abandoned in the cellars and closets of his friends. Surviving on handouts and "air, selfesteem, cigarette butts, cowboy [black, no sugar] coffee, fried-egg sandwiches and ketchup," frail (5 ft. 4 in., about 95 Ibs.) Joe Gould sold (for a drink) entertainment (lectures, poetry recitals, epithets) to any willing...
...Degas and Van Gogh, sipped his brandy neat at the nearby Music Box bar. He read the local papers and, occasionally, The New Yorker. Sometimes he helped the building janitor make wiring repairs. Said one bemused neighbor later: "He didn't look as if he had a nickel. You'd never take...
...capital (bringing U.S. investment in Cuba, mostly in public utilities and sugar, to $750 million by last year). Projects completed or under way include the island's first steel plant ($16 million), two tire factories, new oil-refining facilities ($70 million), expansion of the U.S. Government-owned nickel plant at Nicaro ($37 million). The boom shows no sign of slackening. Planned for the future: a $147 million expansion program by a subsidiary of American & Foreign Power Co.. a $75 million nickel-mining operation by a Freeport Sulphur Co. subsidiary. Even tourism, one of Cuba's three...
...train revenues 42%. But a one-way, first-class plane ticket from New York to Chicago has edged up only 15? (to $45.10), is even cheaper on coach flights. Says United Air Lines' Vice President Robert E. Johnson: "We have held the price line to the last nickel; but we cannot keep on holding it when we are conspicuous among the industries around...