Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...More than 90% of the free world's nickel, and an important share of the zinc, copper, aluminum and other strategic metals for the West's defense...
...College dining halls the Graduate Center, and the Business School's Cowie Hall. Transient diners and those bringing guests to meals in the College will have to pay $1.15 in coupons (include tax) for dinners, a ten cent rise over the present rate, and 85 cents for lunches, a nickel hike. Breakfasts will remain at 65 cents...
...product jumped from $17.8 billion in 1950 to $21 billion in 1951 (making it roughly comparable to the national product of France). Her foreign trade and cash farm income both rose an estimated 25%. Production boomed in all the country's traditional exports-newsprint, wheat, lumber, asbestos and nickel. But the most striking figure of all was the year's new capital investment of $4.6 billion ($800 million from the U.S.). That made 1951 far & away the biggest development year in Canadian history...
...Canadian nickel companies, already producing more than 90% of the free world's nickel, pushed ahead with expansion plans involving more than $160 million. Canada also moved to dominate world production of titanium. After putting up $40 million, Quebec Iron and Titanium Corp. (owned by Kennecott Copper and New Jersey Zinc) began mining the world's largest deposits of titanium ore in Quebec...
...Dettmer was immediately suspended. But last week he was back at work again. The bureau reported, in tones of some admiration, that Dettmer actually did have a slightly unusual system: betting third-money choices at harness tracks to win and place. Rigid investigation disclosed that he had won every nickel of the extra money fair & square in legal parimutuel bets, had duly reported his winnings on his own tax return...