Word: nickels
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
They cost only a nickel or a dime, but for a while they transferred the nation's publishing capital to the small town of Girard, Kans. and made a capitalist-by-mistake of a Philadelphia bookbinder's son; see PRESS, Little Blue Books...
...products of Fairchild Recording Equipment Corp. have so far been too expensive to be a commercial success, but Fairchild is confident that it "will make back every nickel eventually." An early backer of Dr. Gabriel Giannini, the noted physicist, Fairchild in 1946 bought into Giannini Controls of California, a manufacturer of transducers and other sensitive flight instruments. He now owns 9% of the company, which is growing at a 25% yearly rate under Fairchild-picked President Donald Putnam...
...major power struggle to merge the nation's Eastern railroads into two massive networks built around the Pennsylvania and the New York Central broke into the open last week. Forcing the fight was the announcement that directors of the Norfolk & Western Railway and the Nickel Plate Railroad had agreed to merge. Since the Pennsylvania Railroad owns about 33% of the Norfolk & Western, railroaders saw the move as a step toward a giant Pennsy network...
Tough Competition. Merger of the Nickel Plate and the Norfolk & Western would give the N. & W. access to the Great Lakes, and create a network stretching from St. Louis, Chicago, Cleveland and Buffalo to the Pocahontas coal region of the Virginias. The merged roads would rank among the nation's top ten, have a 4,964-mile network with assets of $1.4 billion. Under the terms of the merger agreement, one share of Nickel Plate common would be exchanged for .45 of a share of Norfolk & Western. Since the two lines do not now link, the merger is contingent...
Pocket Money. In Vancouver. B.C.. after being nabbed with 883 coins in their pockets. Gilbert Meunie and Yvon Le-Brun failed to convince Magistrate Oscar Orr that they were hunting for a rare 1921 nickel, were convicted of parking-meter robbery...