Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Sydney Lawford, 7, and her cousin, Maria Shriver, 8, went into business in front of the Palm Beach mansion of Grandfather Joseph P. Kennedy. Shrewd choice of location. The manse fronts on much-traveled North County Road-and their product, cold drinks priced at a nickel a gulp, quickly attracted a large clientele. But shortly the cops stepped in. Peddling without a license? No. Traffic...
With help from the World Bank, de Rothschild Freres created another consortium that has put up $166 million to exhume a rich iron lode in Mauritania. Among other companies that the Rothschilds control, Pefiarroya in Chile mines 7% of the free world's lead, and Le Nickel in New Caledonia produces 10% of the world's nickel. Under Guy, the Rothschilds have also built France's biggest private uranium mining company, which supplies some of the raw material for De Gaulle's force de frappe. And it was de Rothschild Freres that drafted the plan...
...kept a few features and comics, also managed to keep some 200,000 of the Mirror's circulation-a figure that supplied enough extra fat to risk the Sunday price increase. And that inevitably gave rise to further speculation: how long would the Daily News remain the only nickel daily in New York...
...local level, some giveaways have plunged all the way into fulltime newspapering. In Omaha four shopping guides published by David Blacker converted to paid newspaper weeklies beginning in 1958. To Slacker's satisfaction, all but 20,000 of his 60,000 readers submitted to a levy of a nickel; to lis greater satisfaction, all but a handful of those stayed aboard last month when he raised the price to a dime. Although Blacker's papers now carry syndicated columnists, his news approach has remained steadfastly local...
...simple. Most of the marijuana in local circulation comes from New York, although an occasional batch enters directly from overseas and some "very good stuff" is grown in Greater Boston. Prospective buyers need only know someone who knows someone. Virtually anyone can easily pick up a nickel ($5) bag, which contains less than an ounce of marijuana...