Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...produced in quantity in the U.S. before the war. Already the nation can produce most of its own chromite and tantalum (crucially important in a secret war job). The hunters have also discovered 3,000,000 tons of high-grade bauxite (for aluminum), new sources of tungsten, magnesium, nickel, mercury, many another metal. Not all these ores are of high enough quality to be commercially practical in peacetime, but they are good enough to assure the U.S. of an ample war supply...
...were killed in three Eastern railway disasters. But they came with a shuddering frequency that showed the increasing strain of the railroads' job. The locomotive and four cars of the Milwaukee Road's crack Olympian were derailed by a buckled rail south of Seattle (five injured). Two Nickel Plate engines collided head-on at Brocton, N.Y. (none seriously hurt...
Their first client, a backsliding policeman who once owed well over a year's salary and was about to lose his job, paid off his last nickel. For services to him - and up wards of 700 clients - Purdy & Rouse netted about $15,000 last year. Although the system is no sure cure for spendthrifts, Purdy & Rouse are pleased that 75% of those who take the cure, stay cured. Why debtors come to C.A.C. instead of trying to puzzle their way out of their tangles is simply explained by Purdy: "It's always easier to take someone else...
...Coke Is a Coke Is a Coke. In Baltimore, a Boy Scout helping out in an OPA office put a nickel in an automatic coke dispenser. Out popped the cup, down poured the drink. He picked it up. Out popped another cup, down poured a drink. He picked it up. Out popped a cup, down poured a drink. He yelled for help. A line formed. The machine automatically dispensed one hundred and forty-seven drinks...
Tony Galento, the boxer who walks like a beer barrel, was fined $60 in Orange, N.J., for pushing his right at a cop. The heavyweight saloonkeeper had refused to drop a nickel in a parking meter (and refused to stop shadow-boxing in court...