Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fishy? Everyone debates the case of the small car v. the big car, argues the merits of the U.S. car v. the invading import. There are gags for every occasion. At the sight of a new 1958, the sidewalk humorists are solemnly asking, "Where do you put in the nickel to make it light up and play?" To Detroit, all this is as shocking as if a Saint Bernard had bitten a lost missionary. "This," said Ford Stylist George W. Walker sadly, "is 'Hate-Autos Year...
...several craters are among the smallest known: 30 ft. to 150 ft. wide, only 12 ft. deep. The first visitors found no meteorite fragments to a depth of 30 ft. Another expedition tried again for 13 months in 1930-31, found only minute grains of nickel-iron under one crater...
...March. But as the Trib struggled and talked wistfully of the desirability of going to 10? on the city newsstands (the afternoon-paper price in New York City), the Times held coolly to its 5? price and made money, while the Trib, competitively held at a nickel, slipped into...
...build up its nickel supply during World War II, the U.S. signed at least 28 long-term purchase contracts for nickel, now is trying to wiggle out of every one of them, because there is a nickel glut. The U.S. estimates that it has lost $31 million by paying premium prices for nickel, stands to lose $124 million if it honors all its contracts...
Last week a House Government Operations subcommittee, investigating some of these nickel deals, wanted to know particularly why the U.S. cannot cut its nickel purchases and get out of the nickel business by selling its $87 million Nicaro nickel plant in eastern Cuba (current annual production: 52 million lbs., about 11% of the free world's supply...