Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...catalyst is an innocent chemical bystander whose mere presence on the scene promotes or hastens an activity in which the catalyst itself is not involved. Common example: vegetable oils are solidified with hydrogen, in the presence of nickel as a catalyst, to make kitchen shortening...
First Bob Young's man John W. Davin, new president of the Nickel Plate (New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad), told his preferred and common stockholders to expect no dividends for at least five years (they have already waited for eleven years), since all of Nickel Plate's earnings were earmarked for paying off more than $21,000,000 of debt due in 1947. Then Robert J. Bowman, the successful Young candidate for president of Pere Marquette Railway, told his equity holders that they could go begging until $40,000,000 of bonds due between...
...personally removed about 25,000 goiters. (Goiter removal is most frequent operation at Minnesota's Mayo and Boston's Lakey Clinics.) He devised his own operations for cancer of the lip and prolapse of the uterus, and advocated an operation on the coeliac ganglion (nickel-size nerve center above the kidneys) to bring down high blood pressure...
...long and lonesome limb. The new budget contains the smallest requests for ordinary peacetime funds of any one since Herbert Hoover was peeping cautiously around corners. Of the 109 billions asked by the President, only four and a half are to go for regular expenses; every other nickel will go into the maw of Mars. Except for statutory outlays, such as debt retirement and social security payments, every civil agency except agriculture has been cut to the bone. The case of agriculture is simply explained, for Congress itself, frightened silly by the farm bloc, passed legislation raising the parity payments...
However, the trio's greatest triumph came when Ruml deposited a coin in the other Arcade machine, the Champ, depressed the nickel slot, and pulled it out again with unaccustomed vehemence. All the little lights suddenly lit up, giving Ruml the regular five balls and a 50,000 point handicap. He won 77 free games...