Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National City Bank, the city's leading maker of personal loans, hiked interest rates from $3.83 per $100 to $4.25, the first rise since 1937. The Chase National Bank also boosted its rates. Prices started to edge up for a growing number of basic materials-steel pipe, cement, nickel, platinum, shellac, plumbing fixtures-and increases loomed for dinnerware, pots and pans, drapes, rugs, toys, refrigerators, washing machines. Retailers, trying to hold the price line, warned that unless the pressure eases, they will have to give way and also boost retail prices...
Notebook of Maxims. In his office on Michigan's campus, Bennie Oosterbaan keeps a notebook filled with the sayings of the late great Michigan coach, Fielding ("Hurry-Up") Yost. "The will to win is not worth a nickel," says one of the Yost maxims, "unless you have the will to prepare." Oosterbaan, who played under Yost, follows that rule rigidly. For three hours every morning, an hour and a half before afternoon practice and two hours afterward, he and his assistants lay plans for the next game. Key decisions are often settled by a staff vote...
...almost as an afterthought to a week devoted to rounds of parties, sightseeing tours, and long office calls on senior Soviet functionaries. Three of his Russian hosts once cornered Pearson at a Canadian Embassy luncheon and demanded to know why Canada refuses to sell Russia strategic aluminum, copper, and nickel. Pearson smoothly replied that the metals are in short supply. "Where?" demanded ex-Premier Georgy Malenkov. "In Russia," smiled Pearson...
...shyster theatrical producers, a pedestrian suitor named Dr. Shapiro, and the diehard devotion of little Wally Wronken. A character who warms Marjorie's heart, and the reader's, is her uncle, Samson-Aaron, a robustious clown, a seam-splitting glutton, and a lovable dead-beat ("But a nickel, Modgerie, a nickel I always had, to buy you a Hershey bar ven I came to this house"). In his simple way, he shows Marjorie how close she really is to the faith she once brashly dismissed as a Stone Age relic...
...ALUMINUM-NICKEL shortages will be eased by diverting metal from the Government's strategic stockpile to private users. For 1955's third quarter, the Office of Defense Mobilization, which released some metal earlier this year, will release another 200 million Ibs. of aluminum and 3,000,000 Ibs. of nickel...