Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attending night classes at the Georgetown University Law School. It was not easy. Hall often wore old clothes ("I invented the idea of wearing pants and coat that didn't match"), worked out a complicated route to school so he would not have to spend more than a nickel streetcar fare. After three years, at 19, Hall got his law degree...
...Chamber floor at the Poujadist benches. In seconds the floor was a melee of pushing, shouting, punching Deputies. Stools flew overhead, Deputies tore lids off desks to use as weapons. Suddenly, three shots rang out. There in the second-tier gallery was a pale, gaunt young man, waving a nickel-plated pistol and shouting, "Vive Poujade!" The combatants froze into startled silence as spectators grappled with him. A woman screamed and fainted with a clatter among the gallery chairs...
...surplus Government property), Balmer sponsored Mansure for the GSA job, and then began to advise him frequently on important contracts. At just the right time Balmer registered as an insurance broker and obtained, through Mansure's GSA, a whopping insurance contract at the U.S. Government's Nicaro nickel plant in Cuba. Estimated take for Balmer's firm...
...foreign policy whether the change was good for the country or not. [They] cut down our armed forces-in the face of growing Communist strength -so they could claim to reduce Government spending. When they boast about the reduction, they don't tell you that every last nickel of the net reduction came out of our national defense. Well...
...pocketing daily commissions up to $60,000. U.S. Banker Otto Kahn called him "a greater financier than all of us." Britain awarded him a baronetcy (one of the few hereditary titles ever given a Canadian) for his World War I services in halting shipments of neutral nickel to Germany. In 1932, by investing a mere $8,000,000 in its depressed bonds, Dunn got control of Canada's $75 million Algoma Steel Corp., eventually parlayed the value of Algoma's stock from $7 to $375 a share...