Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also slashed the civilian use of zinc by 20% and nickel by 35% for the first quarter of next year, and chopped in half this month's civilian allotment of cobalt, taking it away from the television manufacturers and giving it to the jet-engine and steel makers...
Sandburg's love for the people is as genuine as his love for nickel stogies, but it never attains poetic passion and it is shrouded in pessimism more often than it is clothed in hope. At best he sees a murky, half-formed potential...
...began and some of his critics thought he might just as well have been buying up freight space on the first rocket to the moon. He sold his ranch, mortgaged his automobile, moved into a little four-room bungalow in the Hollywood hills (where he still lives), sank every nickel he could beg, borrow or earn into his vast and complicated project. It took almost $350,000 in all, involved years of haggling and the signing of 1,500 separate contracts. But when television became an actuality, he was ready...
Said Fairless: "The average price of all the finished steel we have sold this year has been just under a nickel a pound, and some of our products now sell at less than 3½? . . . What else in the world can you buy for 3½? a pound? Eggs, butter, meat? . . . There is literally nothing in our grocery store at home that Mrs. Fairless can buy for as little as 3½? a pound ... If you lived among the cliff dwellers of New York City, and if you wanted a little potting soil to put around your geranium plants...
...average reached 228.94, thus breaking through the previous bull market high of last June and climbing to the highest point since September 1930.* Railroad stocks, which had been pacing recent market advances, also rose; their Dow-Jones index was the highest since August 1931. One gold-plated performer: the Nickel Plate Railroad which, after a 19-point gain last week, shot up another 20½ points...