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Word: nickels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...ordinance, passed last week by the Cambridge City Council, will enable the city police to nab all violaters of the nickel-every-hour and one-hour-limit rules...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Sets New Non-residents' Parking Law | 10/6/1948 | See Source »

Registration is just about as easy as putting a nickel in a parking meter--and just as easy to neglect. Of course, the ill effects of forgetting the nickel usually turn up quickly in the concrete form of a parking ticket. Failure to register, with subsequent loss of voting rights, doesn't have such immediate consequences, but you pay for it in the end, and heavily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Register! | 10/1/1948 | See Source »

...likely uses: airplane and jet engine parts (for high strength, lightness and heat resistance); marine hardware (resistance to salt water); industrial equipment where corrosion resistance is important. If titanium does catch on, there is plenty of it. There is more titanium on earth than all the lead, zinc, tin, nickel, copper, gold and silver put together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Metal | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...Regina, Mineral Resources Director W. James Bichan announced the discovery of a copper-nickel deposit in the Grassy Lake area of northeastern Saskatchewan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE PROVINCES: Across the Land | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...with sales dropping, Gene began to shave prices. Corn dropped a nickel. Finally, at 8 p.m., his truck was empty. Dead tired, he and Winnifred set out for home. It had been a good day and there was more than $100 in the pocket of Gene's heavy black pants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ONTARIO: Market Day | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

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