Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of Boston's underpaid firemen, policemen, and schoolteachers arranged to have post-office time cards punched for them. One man stayed away for 75 days and collected every nickel of his pay. Others came in snarling drunk. Regular employees began goofing off worse than ever, formed "50-50 Clubs" with the "temps," to cover up and split their $1.42 hourly pay. During the two-week Christmas rush, a smart checker could make as much as $5,000 by forgetting to mark down the absentees...
...cobalt by developing an electrostatic picture tube and redesigning loudspeakers. In Washington last week, enterprising Philco became the first manufacturer to demonstrate a new-model wartime TV set that saves 26% in copper, 51% in ferrite, 58% in silicon steel, 68% in aluminum, 15% in nickel, and eliminates entirely the use of the critical alloy, Alnico...
...know any more about the will now than we did a year ago when Bacon died," Kraetzer said. Taxes seem the major cause of the delay. "After Uncle Sam has his pick, we don't know whether there will be a nickel left...
...invader from space probably had a large central body of nickel-iron with a smaller body of slightly different composition revolving around it like the moon around the earth. Traveling with these two were many small meteorites that hit the earth separately far from the main crater...
Died. Robert Crooks Stanley, 74, board chairman and longtime president (1922-50) of the International Nickel Co. of Canada, Ltd., world's biggest producer of nickel and platinum, one of the biggest producers of copper; of a heart attack; on Staten Island, N.Y. Mining Engineer Stanley discovered Monel metal, widely used industrial alloy, helped develop the famed Nipissing (cobalt) mine. In World War II, International Nickel delivered to the Allies 1,500,000,000 Ibs. of nickel and 1,750,000,000 Ibs. of copper...