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...Edward Mehren, president of Los Angeles' Squirt Co. (manufacturers of carbonated beverages), predicted the end of nickel soft drinks, urged the Government to start minting 7½? and 12½ coins for the nation's pop drinkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...Sculptor J. E. Fraser explained that the nickel Indian was a composite portrait of Indians Iron Tail, Two Moons and "a third whose name I have forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...Treasury struck a new half-dollar, the first since 1916, bearing the portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Only other Americans on coins (except for special issues): Lincoln (1909 penny), Washington (1932 quarter), Jefferson (1938 nickel), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1946 dime) and two unidentified Indians (1859 penny and 1913 nickel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...Machine. In Providence, Bus Terminal Agent Harold Waterman told police that a determined patron dropped a nickel in a vending machine, got nothing, shook it, still got nothing, picked it up and carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 12, 1948 | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...promote this guess into a well-considered theory, Dr. Brown collected information about 107 meteorites (grounded meteors). He reasoned that "all the fragments came from an exploding planet which had a molten core of nickel-iron at about 3,000° Centigrade [5,432° F.] and an internal pressure of more than 100,000 atmospheres [1,470,000 pounds per square inch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Planets & Paramecia | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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