Word: nickeled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well mean the difference between a good or a great year for U.S. business in 1958. One out of every seven U.S. workers-10.3 million in all-is dependent in some way on the auto industry. It consumes 22% of the nation's steel, 13.6% of its nickel, 62% of its rubber for tires alone, 36% of its annual radio production. A boom in autos is a boom for scores of other industries...
...Great Seal in 1935. On the green side of the new dollar appears, for the first time on U.S. folding money, the motto "In God We Trust," which made its debut on the 2? piece of 1864 and is imprinted on all current U.S. coins except the buffalo nickel. Two years ago Congress ordered the motto added to greenbacks, last year made it - instead of E Pluribus Unum -the nation's official motto...
Judge Kawachi sought to establish motive. "Did you think Girard fired the shot at the woman in fun?" he asked Army Specialist Third Class Victor Nickel, who was with Girard when he fired. "Yes-for a joke," Nickel replied. Then the judge drew from a Japanese prosecution witness the testimony that Girard had at least shouted a warning ("Get outa here") to the woman before he fired, whereupon Girard weakened his own case and astonished the courtroom by denying it. "These discrepancies baffle me," said Judge Kawachi in a genial interim verdict at week...
...travel through the earth, they are bent and reflected in complicated ways. Some waves move faster than others; some are absorbed entirely. By disentangling the jiggly lines made by instruments recording many earthquakes, seismologists have determined that the earth is formed of concentric layers of different materials, with iron-nickel at the center and stony oxides nearer the surface...
...America. The total is still small, but a few big contracts are beginning to roll in. Last week Freeport Sulphur Co. ordered about $500,000 worth of titanium tubing from Titanium Metals Corp. of America to carry a highly corrosive ore slurry at Freeport's new nickel and cobalt mine in Cuba...