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Student refusal to be dominated by the nickel-snatching pay telephone has caused the New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. to once again blow off its annual steam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Phoners Get Twice As Much For a Nickel, Too | 3/10/1948 | See Source »

...best way to get a cheap call, though, is to spin pennies in the nickel slot." With a smug grin on his face and a tone of confidence in his voice, he explained that "the penny bounces over the coin return slot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Phoners Get Twice As Much For a Nickel, Too | 3/10/1948 | See Source »

There is also the more profitable method of plugging the return slot. Jingling a pocketful of coins, the nickel-grabbing Yardling added that there was, however, the danger of a jail sentence if you get caught. Risking the machine was scornfully described as a "cheap trick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Phoners Get Twice As Much For a Nickel, Too | 3/10/1948 | See Source »

Over & over Isacson hammered home the contention that Harry Truman had ducked the Palestine issue; that his civil-rights stand was mostly talk. Isacson wanted price control resumed, rent control continued, the Taft-Hartley Act revoked and subway fares kept at a nickel. And, most pleasing to the Communists, he was dead set against the Marshall Plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: They Voted Against Us | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...Nickel deposits. 4. Phosphates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time News Quiz: The Time News Quiz, Feb. 23, 1948 | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

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