Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Just ... the pump there on the main street. No light. He never went to school much. How would you have grown up if your old man had never worked, and there was never any money in the house for food or anything? If you didn't have a nickel for candy? Sure, Russ has been in trouble all along...
Died. Otto Schnering, 61, founder and president of the Curtiss Candy Co., a pioneer in nickel candy bars, notably Baby Ruth (24 billion bars in 35 years); of a heart attack; in Gary...
...Canada's mines and mills rolled 4,800,000 tons of iron ore, 140,000 tons of nickel (90% of the free world's supply), 370,000 tons of zinc (an alltime record), 4,300,000 oz. of gold (worth $155 million), and an ever-increasing supply of uranium for the West's atomic-energy programs...
Sellers and distributors want the nickel or so profit they can pick up on 25-cent reprints. The crusading spirit, the desire to quelch this net of understated but forceful censorship, does not draw its strength from this group. These men are all too willing to cooperate, and one can hardly blame them. Profit and not principle is their bread and butter...
...club functionary came up behind and handed Tobin a nickel. "Call up the Governor's office again and find out where he is. Tell 'em that we got 60 students and Sam Beer waiting here." The phone booth was occupied and Tobin called from the office of the Dean of the School of Public Administration. "I know he left an hour ago but he's still not here," he told the person in the Governor's office. "Don't you know where he is?" Tobin demanded. The answer must have been no, for when he hung...