Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MERGER-HUNGRY New York Central is asking ICC to include it in the pending Norfolk & Western, Nickel Plate and Wabash combine that might later join the Pennsylvania Railroad. Central fears being left out as the East moves toward two giant rail networks centered about the Pennsy and the Chesapeake & Ohio...
...second prize, Poirier chose a tragicomic story by Ivan Gold, and made clear how closely it too displays the search by the writer for authentic attitudes, his impatience with conventional social definitions. Called "The Nickel Misery of George Washington Carver Brown," it tells of the death (interestingly, five of the twelve prizewinners deal with dying) of Brown, one of two Negroes in a basic training platoon. Gold satirizes the remaining main characters--the embittered Corporal Cherry, Private Hines, whose inclusion makes it clear that Gold is not particularly concerned with Brown as a member of a minority group, and Private...
...getting increasingly difficult; the newest element was so frail that it decayed almost before anyone recognized that it was around. It was manufactured, explained a lab team (Albert Ghiorso, Torbjorn Sikkeland, Almon E. Larsh and Robert M. Latimer), by coating thin nickel foil with a circular film of artificial californium (element 98) only one-tenth of an inch in diameter. Placed in a container filled with helium gas, this tiny target was bombarded by a beam of boron nuclei from the lab's heavy-ion linear accelerator. Most of the boron bullets missed, but a few scored a bull...
Briefly cornered by a Financial Post reporter in Toronto's Royal York Hotel last week, Liu denied that China has any further need for Canadian foodstuffs or metals, just the opposite of what Canadian traders had surmised. Last year more than 1,500,000 lbs. of Canadian nickel went to Red China via Hong Kong, and Sherritt Gordon Mines Ltd. shipped another 1,039,800 Ibs. to China directly, boosting Canada's 1960 China trade to $20 million. But in view of China's calamitous crop losses to flood and drought, Ottawa is still betting...
...food pellet per minute. Bright chimponauts soon learn this limitation. They work the levers only enough to collect one pellet. Then they goof off for 45 seconds until the machine is ready to start another cycle. "Two years ago," says Psychologist Rohles, "I wouldn't have given a nickel for a carload of chimps, but I can't praise them too highly now." Some of the Air Force psychologists even claim they are afraid to teach the chimps to play poker, for fear they would win all the loose cash on the base...