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...dust grew so thick they had to wrap babies in wet sheets to keep them from suffocating from the dirt. A farmer turned away by the local bank herded his cows into a corner, shot them one by one and them shot himself. Dole dug up dandelions for a nickel a bushel, delivered grocery handbills, worked in the drugstore. He listened to his parents talk about how to pay the doctors treating his little brother Kenny, after his leg got infected and the poultices and maggots and lancings couldn't heal it. He vowed at the time that he would...
...date, however, no one has ever bested the nearly $50 billion-a-year tobacco industry, which historically has been willing to spend whatever it takes to neutralize its enemies. In all the years of litigation against cigarette makers, they have yet to pay out even a nickel in damages...
Unofficially, the Streak probably began in the late '60s in the basement of the Ripken household, by then in Aberdeen, Maryland. Says Vi Ripken, the matriarch of the Ripken clan (daughter Ellen, sons Cal Jr., Fred and Billy): "I wish I had a nickel for every time I heard 'Just one more game, Mom.' The kids would be playing Ping-Pong in the basement, and it was always a struggle to get them to come upstairs for dinner, and even more of a struggle to get them to go to bed. Nobody liked to end the night on a loss...
...dish detergent on the World Wide Web." There may be better ways to make 'zines pay. Kyle Shannon, who started Urban Desires with some friends in his Brooklyn living room, believes that within the next few years, people will be willing to pay small amounts of money--"like a nickel an article," he suggests--to read their favorite online publications. All it would take to survive is thousands of people a day, each paying 5 cents an article--a scenario that is hampered right now by the fact that collecting a nickel over the Internet costs more than 5 cents...
Even as a small boy in Omaha, Nebraska, Warren Buffett wanted to be very, very rich. His first possession was a nickel-plated money changer that he proudly strapped to his belt. By age five he was selling Chiclets from a stand outside his house. At six he bought a six-pack of Coke for a quarter and hawked the sodas for a nickel apiece. He soon was charting stocks and made his first purchase--three shares of energy company Cities Service preferred stock--at age 11; they rewarded him with a $5 gain. Thus launched, Buffett vowed to become...