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...enough to remember when a beggar merely held out his cap and asked for an unspecified sum for an unspecified purpose. I can remember: "Sir, will you give me a nickel for a cup of coffee?" and the great democratic and inflationary shift to "Brother, can you spare a dime?" I have even been held up at pistol point and asked for $1.60 -no more, no less -an experience which Max Weber would somehow have been able to work into his great work Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. But I never expected to live long enough...
From time to time Dulles was interrupted by Cabinet members, e.g., Treasury Secretary George Humphrey asked what the Paris agreement would cost the U.S. and Dulles replied: "It isn't going to cost us a nickel extra." Later, Dulles confessed that "I was going to say $6 billion. Then Humphrey was going to faint, and we were going to carry him out in front of everybody...
...1940s, when White was president of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, he started merger talks with the D. & H. and the Boston & Maine railroads, to form a carrier that would compete with the Central. Though the plan fell through, White may now revive it, perhaps try to bring in the Nickel Plate, which is partly (15%) owned by the Lackawanna...
...will have allies, and that it will be able to maintain supply lines back and forth across the oceans. Furthermore, if self-sufficiency is the goal, the U.S. should be spending its money only for those highly critical metals that cannot be found at home, instead of buying aluminum, nickel, molybdenum, etc., which are available in the U.S., Canada and Mexico...
...salesman husband from their home in Mount Pleasant, Mich. (pop. 11,000). "Are you rich?" Moore asked Mrs. Deibel. No, said she, but not poor either. "Just for laughs," as he later explained, Moore suggested to his estimated 3,000,000 televiewers that they each send Mrs. Deibel a nickel. That was all there was to it-no boxtops, no labels, no strings attached...