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...more-even when we have a season like this one." With the team in seventh place in the National League, Owner Busch was still aghast to consider his own fate if he were to sell it down the river: "My life wouldn't be worth a plugged nickel in St. Louis. My God, I'd consider selling the brewery before I'd sell the Cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 27, 1955 | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...ALUMINUM-NICKEL shortages will be eased by diverting metal from the Government's strategic stockpile to private users. For 1955's third quarter, the Office of Defense Mobilization, which released some metal earlier this year, will release another 200 million Ibs. of aluminum and 3,000,000 Ibs. of nickel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jun. 27, 1955 | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

There are shortages in such other key metals as copper, nickel and aluminum. With output of military tanks and trucks at a low level, far less than 10% of the auto industry is now devoted to defense output (though some firms, e.g., jeep-maker Willys, might feel the pinch of a defense cutback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: -IF PEACE COMES-: Its Effects on the Economy | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...gambling Las Vegas, he played one nickel in one slot machine. It was, he said, a ritual that he performs each time he goes to Nevada to watch A-bombs - "dipping my toe in the water at a famous bath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, may 16, 1955 | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...leaders failed to realize that candy manufacturers, hurt by the high price of the peanuts they use in their products, had done an effective job of lobbying. Said Congressman Green, who has some candymakers in his district: "A peanut candy bar sells for a nickel. If peanut prices were at a reasonable level, more peanuts could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Political Peanuts | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

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