Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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David R. Jackson '54 of Winthrop House had his bike stolen and returned within the space of six hours Monday night and made a nickel profit in the process...
...broken, he was let out in 1929. He spent the next 14 years in the quiet of the Vatican Library-as a clerk, filing index cards. He stretched his $80-a-month salary, on which he supported a wife and four daughters, by translating from the German at a nickel a page. Meanwhile, he kept in touch with his fellow Christian Democrats, and when Mussolini fell, a skeleton Christian party was ready. By April 1945 De Gasperi was Italy's Foreign Minister; by year's end he was named Premier. The first thing De Gasperi...
...Nickel Knack. Several Los Angeles industrial plants are installing the first of 1,000 vending machines to sell nickel-sized tablets called "Kevo-Etts." Four of the tablets, which contain sea kelp, soya, dextrose, yeast and pepsin, are said by their inventor to supply all the nourishment, vitamins and minerals of a complete meal. Price: 5? for four...
...Sacramento staff (it is already being printed there). Next month she will move Fresno staffers into a new million dollar building. But like other publishers, the queen of the Bees has been hit by rising costs; last week she raised the papers' newsstand price from a nickel to a dime...
Even in the dead of winter, when temperatures drop 50° below zero, the search for oil continues on the Canadian prairies. Winter has actually speeded development in Northern Manitoba; a whole town is being moved overland by tractors and sleighs to the isolated site of a new nickel mine. Another town, Uranium City, is springing up in the far north of Saskatchewan near the shaft of a new uranium mine that will be the biggest in North America, and may be the richest in the world when it goes into production late this year. Meanwhile, Canada...