Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left an estate of $20,570.32. There was a C. C. Hagermann living in the town, and he had known Hanley since boyhood. But he told the investigators that he knew nothing about the note or the bank stock, swore that Hanley had never paid him a nickel, and declared himself completely mystified by the initials "C.T.C...
Nevertheless, until output was stepped up, the U.S. faced grave shortages in such metals as aluminum, copper, nickel, cobalt, etc., whose production was not yet up to World War II's level...
Upswing. In Hollywood, a thug who robbed a restaurant wrote down an observation for the owner: "Not one nickel was phony. You know, people are getting more honest these days...
Even the lunch toters were in for trouble at the soft-drink counter. In New York City, bottled Coca-Cola broke loose from its famous nickel moorings for the first time and went on to 6?. Other cities might have it worse: half of the nation's 6,000 soft-drink bottlers had upped their wholesale case price. Beer also went...
...probably not smart enough. Qualifications for membership in the ranks of the under-12-year-olds, in whose honor the larger emporiums are currently running pandemoniums called toy departments, are high; and aspirants had better have a good understanding of pantographs, sismographs, spinthariscopes, the electrolysis of nickel compounds, the 12-tone scale, and most of the wizardry of modern electronics--to mention only a few points. This is all sine qua non equipment and enables you to perform the elementary tasks of childhood, such as forging checks, bombing out enemy areas, leading scorched-earth campaigns, and locating uranium deposits...