Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lining both sides of main arteries within a quarter-mile radius of the Kiosk, the meters will pay off at the rate of 12 minutes per penny, or a whole hour for a nickel. When the flag pops up in the glass meterhead at the end of an hour, the parker must either move to another meter or pay a $1 fine, with fines for subsequent offences depending upon what humor the judge...
...Eagle's Brood was worth every nickel it cost. It was written by CBS Writer-Director Robert Lewis Shayon, 32, after a 9,000-mile, $2,000 coast-to-coast tour of U.S. slums and prisons. "What I saw," says Shayon, "hit me between the eyes." His script, as radio rarely does, hit listeners between the ears...
Prospector Austin McVeigh, who had made one of the famed gold strikes at Red Lake, Ont. kept mighty quiet about the discovery he made afterwards. Ranging the muskeg around Lynn Lake in 1941, he caught sight of a likely looking outcropping. The samples he took had traces of nickel and copper. Prospector McVeigh took back his boss, Eldon L. Brown, president of Sherritt Gordon Mines, to prospect further. Their magnetometer, which detects ore bodies magnetically, indicated a huge body of ore below the muskeg...
...prospectors and supplies, it decided to keep the discovery to itself until it had diamond-drilled and staked the area. Not until last month did Brown disclose the full extent of his find to the Manitoba Chamber of Mines. Lynn Lake, he said, seemed to be the richest nickel strike on the North American continent since Sudbury, Ont. (1880s) - and the only important one not controlled by International Nickel, which supplies the U.S. with most of its nickel...
...Manhattan cut-rate drugstore resolutely fought inflation with a sign: "All nickel candies...