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Even strict economy measures, such as abolishing rents and taxes on MTA property and payroll reductions, will not bring the yearly deficit below $3,000,000. The only feasible solution is the fare hike. From now on Bostonians will just have to fumble for that extra nickel...
...early months of 1949, in the mid-continent city of Indianapolis, Mrs. Irene Horn, a housewife, felt frightened of the future. She "just had a sort of fear." The fear was so great that she was saving every nickel, buying only bare necessities, and praying for prices to come down. By year's end, Mrs. Horn's fears had vanished. She and her husband had bought a farm in Ohio, and the future looked rosy. As she looked out over her 30 acres, her well-filled bins and fat cattle, she said: "I think things are pretty steady...
...Change. In Baltimore, Prisoner William O. Gardner explained his long absence from his cell at Maryland Penitentiary: he had fallen off a truck while working as a trusty outside the prison walls, and had not telephoned during his 76 days of freedom because he didn't have a nickel...
...November 14, 1902, she appeared in the gallery, where visitors came to "watch the animals eat", and was immediately recognized with cheers and jeers from the floor below. She shouted, "Boys! Don't eat that infernal stuff, it's poison." When she headed down the stairs with her nickel-plated hatchets, students quickly crowded around her, offering cigarettes and cigars, which she struck to the floor with indignation. When an uproarious mob had swept her into Sanders Theater, she attempted to speak, but shouts and singing drowned her out, and she finally abandoned Harvard to a life...
...still come from small items: last year the company sold 26 million hairnets, 31 million combs, 100 million pounds of candy. And Store Manager Herbert H. Hocher assured Houstonians that price-conscious Woolworth's has not entirely abandoned the small-change standard. Said he: "We still have a nickel cup of coffee...