Word: nickel
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...sugar for about 400 per lb., vs. a world price of 90. In return, the Soviets sell Cuba nearly all the oil it burns, at $14 per bbl., about one-third below the world price The Soviets and the Eastern bloc also buy most of Cuba's nickel, its other major export, at prices about 50% higher than world levels, and fund most of Cuba's industrial development. Projects financed by the U.S.S.R. supply 30% of all Cuba's electricity, 95% of its steel and every last pound of its sheet metal All together Soviet...
Esquire's sturdy genes go back to Depression 1933, when the posh magazine was launched for sale in men's clothing stores instead of on newsstands and cost 50? while the Saturday Evening Post sold for a nickel. It promoted men's fashions, a merchandising emphasis that continues to this day. But a part of the editorial genius of its founding editor Arnold Gingrich was a taste for good writing. At a time when Ernest Hemingway's stories were too unconventional for the Post, Gingrich admiringly sent him free slacks and a windbreaker...
...higher than the law permits. With only 400 inspectors to police 225,000 gasoline retail outlets, enforcement has been futile. This week the department will increase the legal profits retailers can collect. Thus stations, some of which have closed down in protest, may be able to raise prices another nickel a gallon...
...Treasury hopes for the Anthony buck are high. The coins, which are made of nickel-covered copper and contain no silver, weigh only a third as much as the Ike dollar. They are also cheaper to produce than paper dollars-3? for a coin that lasts 15 years vs. 1.8? for a bill that survives 18 months. The coin's distinctive undecagonal shape, besides being an aid to the blind, is also intended to help store clerks and bank tellers speed up transaction time and reduce errors; it should also cut down on jamming in currency-counting machines used...
...critic George Jean Nathan listed- and dismissed- some arguments behind "the vacation idea." Meet new people? "I have met hundreds upon hundreds of new people [on vacation] and you can have all but maybe six or seven of them for a nickel." Take things easy? "The more leisure you have, the more your cares will recur to you." Fun to just let go for a while? No, says Nathan: You eat too much, drink too much, spend too much. "You do everything, in short, that contributes to a magnificent case of physical, emotional, financial and spiritual katzenjammer." As for vacations...