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Last week, after solemn thought, the New York City Board of Education placed an order for 50,000 pounds of nickel-silver alloy. The purpose: to provide every schoolchild in the city with a G.I.-type identification tag bearing name, address, and (if arrangements for large-scale typing can be made) blood-type. The board hoped to have the tags ready by spring...
...left an estate of $20,570.32. There was a C. C. Hagermann living in the town, and he had known Hanley since boyhood. But he told the investigators that he knew nothing about the note or the bank stock, swore that Hanley had never paid him a nickel, and declared himself completely mystified by the initials "C.T.C...
Nevertheless, until output was stepped up, the U.S. faced grave shortages in such metals as aluminum, copper, nickel, cobalt, etc., whose production was not yet up to World War II's level...
Upswing. In Hollywood, a thug who robbed a restaurant wrote down an observation for the owner: "Not one nickel was phony. You know, people are getting more honest these days...
Even the lunch toters were in for trouble at the soft-drink counter. In New York City, bottled Coca-Cola broke loose from its famous nickel moorings for the first time and went on to 6?. Other cities might have it worse: half of the nation's 6,000 soft-drink bottlers had upped their wholesale case price. Beer also went...