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...four sneak previews, audiences liked what they saw. Cracked Glass: "We are now solidly in a position to finance another million-dollar picture, but we haven't got a nickel for a cigar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: How to Finance a Movie | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Discrimination. In Bangor, Me., police removed a playful citizen from the parking meter to which he clung, despite his protest that he had put in his nickel and still had 35 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 26, 1948 | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...million surplus. He cut yearly expenditures from $105 million in 1938 to $92 million in 1943, slashed the payroll from 17,000 to 10,000, cut the property tax almost in half, established a civil service system, created the job of state "business manager" to watch every nickel. His "Count Ten" labor act, passed in 1939, was the first post-Wagner Act law which forced labor to show at least partial responsibility. It required a 10-to-30-day cooling-off period, cut strikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: WHO'S WHO IN THE GOP: STASSEN | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...Nickel slot-machines that can analyze your personality are just around the corner, now that Eliot D. Chapple '31, former research follow in Psychology, has perfected his Interaction Chronograph...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Push Button Psycho-Analysis... | 4/10/1948 | See Source »

...dispute" on Feb. 2. Thus he could legally clap the mines shut on the miners' strike day, April 1. Last year he had won a 10?-a-ton royalty for an old-age and welfare fund (now swollen into a $29.5 million kitty). But not a nickel of the fund "had been distributed. John and the operators had not been able to agree on how to distribute it. That was one of this year's beefs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Winter Is Now Gone | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

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