Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dartmouth graduate ('06, Phi Beta Kappa) and a successful real-estate operator who was also secretary of Chicago's Crime Commission, he found a business controlled by sharpers and racketeers; chewing-gum sticks were cut in half, sold for a penny apiece; undersized chocolate bars cost a nickel; peanuts costing 8? per Ib. dribbled out at the rate of six per penny. And when the machines ran out of merchandise, they returned nothing but a hollow, insulting clank. Leverone hired an engineer to design an honest machine that would return coins when empty, then contracted with well-known...
...past, both Czarist and Soviet regimes have had to force people to live and work there. Tens of millions of hapless human slaves, cutting timber, tilling the bleak steppe, or digging through the permafrost (in some places 75 ft. deep) to get at the gold, iron, coal, copper, nickel, uranium, titanium, magnesium and bauxite have laid the foundations of a series of vast industrial enterprises. To develop this industry, the Soviet Union now needs the skills and crafts of mil lions of willing, i.e., voluntary, workers, and agricultural producers to feed them...
Action at Last. D'Allessandri's little black book showed that in eight months of 1953, Terbita shipped thousands of tons of such strategic commodities as vanadium, cobalt, nickel, copper and molybdenum (listed as Portuguese cork) to Soviet-bloc countries. The record showed that Terbita paid $3,000,000 in profits to the Italian Communist Party. Police also have record that another $1,000,000, transferred from Poland to Terbita's account, never reached the party chest, and Lawyer Greuter said that the Italian Communist Party should ask Reale about that...
...medical profession, Dr. Spears was charged with manslaughter after a young (31) patient died six weeks after he opened his clinic, was acquitted, sued state health officials for $300,000, lost the case. He later sought damages for libel suits totaling some $36 million, never collected a nickel...
...NICKEL SHORTAGE is growing so serious that ODM will divert 40 million Ibs. from strategic stockpiles to private industry. Total diversions thus far in 1956: nearly 55 million...