Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Payoff. In Winchester, Ky., Deputy Sheriff R. L. Cruse swung his sledge hammer at a slot machine seized in a raid, hit the jackpot for a lone nickel...
Excess Profit. In Portland, Ore., City Commissioner Kenneth Cooper bemoaned the nickel bonus added to his $5,000 salary, complained that it boosted him into a higher income-tax bracket...
...space of a few years, Bob Young had become the most-talked-about railroadman in the U.S. Consequently, people took stock-quite literally-in what he intended to do. He had already put together a railroad kingdom out of the roads which Alleghany Corp. controlled: the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Nickel Plate, the Pere Marquette and its stock interests (in ten other roads). Now he was after an empire. The New York Central would be its keystone...
...kinds of price news made Page One last week in the New York Herald Tribune. Butter & eggs were down; the Trib itself was up-from 3? to a nickel a day. Three out of four of the country's 1,750 dailies had beaten the Trib...
...Manhattan's nine dailies are now a nickel except the twopenny tabloids, the Mirror and Daily News, and the bulky Times, which sells its ad-rich product (at 3?) for little more than it pays for the blank paper (newsprint has jumped from $48 to $84 a ton since...