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...poll, and consistently fumbled the ball in every interview with the Dinning Hall management. The past month and a half has resulted in a thrill-packed orgy of neat, little plans and smashed, neat, little plans. During this time not one ounce of wheat has been saved nor one nickel set aside to buy C.A.R.E. packages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poll Cats | 11/21/1947 | See Source »

...FULL MOON & EMPTY ARMS: Seven recordings of a sugared-to-taste version of _____'s Piano Concerto No. 2 were steady juke-box nickel-pullers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 3, 1947 | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...Wait Coulson, star end, had the last word. "Ox DaGrosa said he's going to play from concrete to concrete. Well, if we have anything to say about it, we'll have Holy Cross playing in the nickel seats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rally Turns Out Vociferous Few | 10/18/1947 | See Source »

Young was quite prepared for the attacks of such opponents as the Virginian Railway, a C. & 0. competitor in the coal-hauling business; of old enemies in the Nickel Plate, whose control he had given up; and of the Chrysler Corp., which said that it feared higher freight rates for automobiles because of less railroad competition. But Young was not prepared for a sharp heel in the teeth from the bride-to-be herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marry the Girl? | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

Green Light. ICC allowed Railroader Robert R. Young to divest his Chesapeake & Ohio Railway of control of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel Plate) road. He will distribute C. & O.'s 192,400 Nickel Plate shares to C. & O. stockholders as a stock dividend. In permitting Young to shed control of a road that competes with the New York Central, ICC removed one more obstacle to Young's aim to control the Central...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Sep. 22, 1947 | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

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