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Like pickle barrels and nickel candy, the ring of grocery-store cash registers may soon belong to nostalgia. In its place will come the soft whir and occasional beeping of electronic equipment. Seven large supermarket chains in the U.S. are quietly testing an automated pricing and check-out system that can "read" coded prices on each item, tot up the bill and do nearly everything but pack the groceries in a bag. Advocates of the system, who describe it as the biggest advance in retailing since the tin can, say that it promises big savings in both shopping time...
...Nickel Bethlehem...
...before you ever try to sell your cotton, and it's set probably before you gin your cotton and before you gather it or grow it or even plant your seed." During Shaw's prime farming years (roughly 1906 to 1932), cotton brought as little as a nickel and as much as 40? a pound...
Long Queues. Such gloom is widespread, reports TIME'S Herman Nickel. "Surveys reveal that well over 1 million Britons [out of a total population of 56 million] now express a firm intention of emigrating; 4.5 million are considering it. There are long queues waiting for immigration permits outside the Canadian and Australian High Commissions. An exodus of the sizable American community has already begun...
...Observes Nickel: "Though it is easy to lambaste those volunteers as Blimpish strikebreakers, they reflect the middle class's deep-seated anxiety that Britain's traditional institutions (which it controlled for so long) are giving way to new power structures dominated by the working class. Yet the crisis is more than a class conflict. The unions will soon be competing with each other for shares of the nation's shrinking economic...