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...Blade. In fact, Hershey does play around some with the size of the bar, changing it to counter the wildly gyrating world cocoa market. Since World War II, as cocoa prices have ranged from 8? to 74? a pound, Hershey's nickel bar has varied in weight between a full ounce and seven-eighths of an ounce, and company executives have learned to swallow such gibes as "Hershey is packaging a nice razor blade now." Recently, when cocoa prices tumbled below 30?, the bar was raised back to a full ounce. Hershey jiggers with weight instead of price because...
...plea of "military secrecy," which has long been used to conceal the exact extent of stockpiling operations. Kennedy said that stockpiles now contain almost twice as much material as the Pentagon assumes the U.S. would need for a three-year war. He estimated that the excess supply of nickel alone was worth $103 million, the excess supply of aluminum another $347 million...
...Central's urge to merge with the Pennsy was renewed by two events: 1) the Pennsylvania seemed to be considering joining up with the projected merger of the Norfolk & Western (of which it owns 32.7%) and the Nickel Plate; 2) after a titanic proxy fight, control of Alleghany Corp.-the holding company that controls the Central-passed from Robert Young's associate, Financier Allan P. Kirby to the Texas brothers, Clint and John Murchison, and Perlman found himself working for new bosses who insisted that the solution to the problems of the Eastern railroads lay in merger. Reopening...
...South Africa and recommended for Australia and New Zealand. The pound note would be scrapped, and the 10-shilling note become the standard denomination, while shillings would represent ten penny units like the dime; the present sixpenny bit would thus represent 5 pence and be equivalent to the U.S. nickel, while the half crown would correspond to a quarter. Britons are divided over nomenclature for the new 10-shilling bill. Some want to call it a "Britannia," others a "noble"-after an English coin that was worth 6 shillings and 8 pence in 1461 and, mercifully, was scrapped...
...selling apples just to make gin money. Little do they know that the burlapidated old bag is (violins can now be heard sobbing on the sound track) An Unwed Mother. Yes, the dear old girl is living on Gordon's and garbage, and sending every lousy nickel to a Spanish convent, where her wide-eyed, ever-loving daughter lives with some kind old nuns who teach her to be a lady and shield her from the awful truth about her birth. Apple Annie? The girl never heard of her. She thinks her mother is the worthy Mrs. E. Worthington...