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...city teachers' salaries and that a sustaining fare be established on the subways. "The only person that rides on the subway for 5? is the fellow who don't live in New York City. Everybody else pays more than 5?, but because they only drop a nickel in the turnstile they do not realize that the rest is in their rent...
...students promptly took her at her word and abandoned their food as she came down stairs to sell her famous miniature nickel-plated hatchets. Students pressed around her, offering her cigars and cigarettes, and feigning great surprise when she struck their smokes wrathfully to the ground. One student made a grab at her bonnet, but was unable to detach...
...corrosion, but is difficult to make. Chromium alloyed with iron makes "rustless iron." "Stainless" steel contains iron, carbon and chromium. But for a multitude of uses a coating over the iron or steel objects suffices. Paint serves well in many places, as does zinc (galvanizing), tin, copper, lead, concrete. Nickel does not tarnish readily, resists corrosion, has high lustre, is hard, and has long been used to plate iron & steel. In all those qualities chromium surpasses nickel. When Professor Fink and others showed how chromium could be electroplated manufacturers quickly adopted chromium plating for electrotypes, motor car radiator shells, bumpers...
Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, 53, and his two-year-younger brother Mantis James were at home in Cleveland last week, silent as to what they thought of the Nickel Plate's situation. Quiet, busy bachelors who live together in the fashionable Shaker Heights district which they built up, the "Vans" have always been shy of publicity. But many a success writer has written of their rise from newspaper selling with pooled assets of $16.32 to a position where they control 29,704 miles of track with Cleveland's new Union Terminal as their monument. The Depression has brought a severe...
...receivership and reorganization of the Nickel Plate occurs it is likely that the only way common stockholders can retain control is through an assessment. Last February control of the Nickel Plate was shifted under option from Alleghany Corp., loaded down with bank loans, to Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, which at the end of last year had $11,000,000 in cash and cash deposits. Despite the Nickel Plate's situation, its common shares sold last week at $5, indicating most people thought the stock would not be wiped out, that the "Vans" could patch up their pyramid. And announcement of their...