Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more-even when we have a season like this one." With the team in seventh place in the National League, Owner Busch was still aghast to consider his own fate if he were to sell it down the river: "My life wouldn't be worth a plugged nickel in St. Louis. My God, I'd consider selling the brewery before I'd sell the Cards...
There are shortages in such other key metals as copper, nickel and aluminum. With output of military tanks and trucks at a low level, far less than 10% of the auto industry is now devoted to defense output (though some firms, e.g., jeep-maker Willys, might feel the pinch of a defense cutback...
...gambling Las Vegas, he played one nickel in one slot machine. It was, he said, a ritual that he performs each time he goes to Nevada to watch A-bombs - "dipping my toe in the water at a famous bath...
...leaders failed to realize that candy manufacturers, hurt by the high price of the peanuts they use in their products, had done an effective job of lobbying. Said Congressman Green, who has some candymakers in his district: "A peanut candy bar sells for a nickel. If peanut prices were at a reasonable level, more peanuts could...
...stroke of noon. "Look at those guys," said a newsman astonished by the first scrambling sprint for position. "They've got million-dollar legs and five-cent heads." But by the time the field reached the first check point in Framingham, the tangle had unwound. The nickel noggins had dropped back; a Staten Island, N.Y. schoolteacher named William Welsh was striding easily in the lead. Close on the pace, a scant 100 yards back, came Eino Pulkkinen, a smooth-running Finn, and Nick Costes, a Natick, Mass, schoolteacher who finished ninth last year. Almost unnoticed, in 13th place...