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...city-rooms of the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News, editors gasped and whistled to themselves as they took a story. Their employers, Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick and Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson, suddenly, unexpectedly, had sold their nickel-weekly Liberty to Bernarr Macfadden...
...March of Time." My radio fan-age began 'way back in 1911- when only the staccato chirp of the code could be transmitted. I remember building my first "coherer" set, using filings from the milled edges of a nickel and a quarter...
Angelo Casale of Brooklyn wanted to ride on the subway but had no nickel. Ingenious, he carried water in a folding cup to the turnstile slot, poured it in. The water completed the electrical contact, allowed him to enter the subway. But a watchman caught him, had him sent to jail for two days...
...England," surprised the public when it disclosed that his estate at his death was only $2,500,000. But it did not surprise financial wiseacres who were aware that most of his holdings were in stocks knocked down by the economic depression, particularly Imperial Chemical and International Nickel. The remaining estate will be divided among his family. The new Lord Melchett will inherit half the estate. Lady Erleigh, daughter-in-law of the Marquess of Reading, Great Britain's No. 1 Jew, is to receive Lord Melchett's property facing Lake Tiberias in Palestine...
...Nickel Plate: Boston & Maine, Maine Central, Bangor & Aroostook...