Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...powerful House Appropriations Committee, but Halleck visited with Ohio's Republican Representative Frank Bow, a bitter-end opponent of foreign aid, persuaded him to vote with the Administration. When Halleck took his case to Michigan Republican Alvin Bentley, who had rarely voted so much as a nickel for foreign aid, Bentley said: "You may be surprised by what I do." Halleck was indeed surprised. Bentley not only voted to restore $100 million, but actually made a speech in favor of foreign aid. Where in past years scores of Republican Congressmen could be expected to vote against foreign...
...budget are doomed to red-ink disappointment. Federal income in 1960, said the report, will come to $75.8 billion instead of the $77.1 billion predicted in the President's 1960 budget. If so, a deficit of at least $1.2 billion is inescapable even if Congress votes not a nickel more for outgo than the $77 billion that Ike requested. Actual 1960 spending, the report continued, is likely to reach $80 billion-and that would mean a $4.2 billion deficit...
...tablespoon into the coin-return opening, wedge open the little trap door, insert his coin in the slot, and pull the lever. Down through the trap door would fall the take. One imaginative cheater was caught using a fine homemade machine tool with detachable heads, one each for nickel, dime, quarter, half-dollar and dollar slots...
...sentimental memory, was a psychopathic killer who dropped most of his 21 victims from ambush or tampered with their guns before he picked a fight; and he was not even fast on the draw. Jesse James, no matter what the legend says, never gave a buffalo nickel to the poor. Wes Hardin, the tiny Texan who was probably the most dangerous gunman in the West, was as mean as a mountain boomer; he had killed twelve men before he started to shave, and by the time he was mercifully shot in the back, at 42, he had slaughtered more than...
...next day the New Hamburger was born. It was the same as before, but it had a pickle relish and peppers and ground-up cole slaw, and it cost a nickel more. They smiled at the Bick, smiled quietly, and waited...