Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shipments to Russia included 13,500 tons of aluminum, 11,700 tons of lead, 1,500 tons of nickel, 120,000 tons of flour, 10,000 tons of wheat. Many Russian merchantmen were serviced and repaired in Canadian ports...
Maypole Dance. To avoid credit inflation, Mr. Morgenthau ruled that not a nickel of his $16-billion Fifth War Loan could be sold to commercial banks. This rule has, to a considerable extent, been circumvented. A good part of the Fifth, like 20% of the previous War Loan, which was similarly restricted, is being financed by bank credit. This is easily done to get the cash with which to buy the current loan, insurance companies, savings banks and other investors "dump" Government securities by selling them to commercial banks. With the proceeds they buy bonds of the new issue. Naturally...
This week the Russians made sure of Dietl's preoccupation by probing his defenses far above the Arctic Circle. Thirty miles from the Red lines lay the border of Norway and beyond, the rich nickel mines that are an essential part of the German war economy. Dietl had better hold fast at Norway's back door. The Finnish troops on the Karelian Isthmus were likely to have to shift for themselves...
...Clamper. But the troubles of "Dear Charley" were not so much with Author Twain as with Inventor Twain and Businessman Twain-who never had made a nickel except by writing and publishing. From the publishing house Twain was reaping $100,000 a year-and pouring most of it into his inventions. There was Kaolatype (a chalk process for engraving). It had been going nowhere for years. There was the Twain bed clamp, designed to keep babies from getting wound up in the covers. It was Editor Webster, then an infant, who proved it unpractical. Nothing ever came...
...students promptly took her at her word and abandoned their food as she came down the stairs to sell her famous miniature nickel-plated batches. 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...