Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Good Deal. The complex details of the disputed Hanna contracts seemed hardly the stuff for sensation. In 1952, with the Korean war dragging on, the U.S. Government needed great quantities of nickel for war production, especially for jet aircraft...
...rich and well-run CHESAPEAKE & OHIO for control of the anemic BALTIMORE & OHIO. The other-designed to compete against a possible C & 0 -B & O system-is the proposal of the efficient coal-hauling NORFOLK & WESTERN to take over the NICKEL PLATE and then to lease the WABASH to form a 7,400-mile superfreight line with routes west into Missouri and north into Canada. The N. & W. proposal awaits an examiner's report; the C & O bid has won an examiner's approval. The final word is up to the ICC commissioners...
...better pack up and go home." Then he turns intensely serious. "We can't change too often though. It costs too much money." He picks from his desk a child's china bank in the shape of a rocket. When he puts a nickel in the slot, the coin falls right out through the open bottom. "A friend gave me this," he says, "to keep me thinking about the taxpayers' money...
Darling Janizary. He also has virtually every nickel he has ever earned. He was once seen handing a few coins to his first wife and counting them first. Some time ago, when Manhattan's Hotel Plaza sent him 1½ English muffins for breakfast, he called the head of room service and the manager and even threatened to call Owner Conrad Hilton, claiming that the menu said "muffins" and a measly 1½ did not live up to the plural...
...happen? . . . Irving, so why doesn't someone pick up this shirt? It looks like a schmuttie [rag]. And Irving, take more of this colored costume jewelry out of the drawers and put it on the cases. In two weeks it's not worth a nickel. So why don't you have it all out now? You don't want we should get stuck with it, do you. Irving?" Initial Offer. In his private life as in his business, Ferkauf operates with uncluttered simplicity and directness. He proposed to his wife, blonde Estelle Silverstein Ferkauf, on their...