Word: nickeled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, exercises were held by the Winchester Junior Rifle Corps of which one Samuel Moore, 17, is a member. At 8:30 a. m., this Moore began to shoot. The range was 50 ft. The round black centre of the target was no bigger than a nickel. At 3:57 that afternoon, he stopped. During that time, he had scored 1,500 successive bull's-eyes-a world's record...
...Thus I entered college with a debt of five dollars. Four years later I graduated with all my expenses paid and with a balance of $1.75. During those years I had not borrowed a nickel and had received only a few dollars in the form of a Christmas present. The remainder of the money I earned as I went along...
When O. P. Van Sweringen took the stand last week in the Nickel Plate case before the Interstate Commerce Commission, some interesting facts concerning the past history of that merger came out. Much attention was paid to his assertions relating to his and his brother's profits, which have amounted...
...Sweringen brothers entered the steam railroad business in 1916 by purchasing the old "Nickel Plate" (New York, Chicago & St. Louis R. R.) from the New York Central for $2,000,000 cash and $6,500,000 credit. Despite old Nickel Plate's official title, it possessed no real terminal facilities at New York, Chicago or St. Louis. To make something of the line, it consequently became necessary to expand it. First they went after and acquired (for $750,000 cash and $2,250,000 credit) the "Clover Leaf" (Toledo, St. Louis & Western), then in a receivership. Next, the brothers...
...addition to heading the D. & H., Mr. Loree is also an important factor on the directorates of some Western lines, notably the Kansas City & Southern. Instead of waiting to be eaten up by one or another of the "Big Four" Eastern lines (New York Central, Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio and Nickel Plate), Loree resolved to do some of the eating himself, and purchased the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh. Next, his hand was suspected in a mysterious purchase of the Ann Arbor by the Wabash- which, as is well known, Air. Loree covets lor his "fifth system." As yet, however, this proposal...