Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Investors. Companies that never before operated in Indonesia are investigating the scene too. One visitor last week was Eastern Air Lines President Floyd Hall, in Djakarta to talk about the possibilities of a joint operation in the islands with Garuda Airways, the national airline. U.S. Steel is contemplating nickel mining in West Irian, Freeport Sulphur is surveying copper prospects, and no fewer than 19 companies are competing for the right to drill for offshore oil around the big islands of Sumatra, Java and Borneo...
...past few years, Cliffies have been allowed to eat in the graduate cafeteria as an alternative to having lunch in their own dorms. They are given an allotment of 80 cents per day, which was ample in the days when hamburgers were 30 cents, cottage cheese a nickel, and ice cream and fruit, only a dime...
...good part by the Norfolk & Western Railway," Saunders told the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce recently. "With everything to gain and nothing to lose, the N. & W. seems to want to prolong as long as it possibly can the tremendous competitive advantages gained from its own merger with the Nickel Plate and Wabash, which has been in effect for more than two years." Saunders called the N. & W. "the Marie Antoinette of the 20th century," telling every other railroad to go eat cake. But the N. & W., said he, already has much of the cake. "By all odds...
...Manhattan-based Continental Telephone Supply Co., Inc., a leader in the bug-and anti-bugging business, proudly advertises a postage-stamp-size, transistorized "007 Spy Transmitter" that can pick up whispered conversations and broadcast them to a conventional radio receiver located nearby. The 007 is powered by a tiny nickel-cadmium or mercury battery that will last for 60 hours. Another Continental bug looks like an exact copy of a telephone microphone. But substituted for that mike in a standard telephone, it operates indefinitely on the phone's own current and transmits both sides of any telephone conversation...
...imbued with the ideal of public service. He left Harvard after his junior year, spent three years studying in Japan and living on $25 a month. The penny-pinching existence was nothing new. When he was a boy, his father gave him a 15? weekly allowance: a nickel to spend, a nickel to save, and a nickel for charity...