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Excess Profit. In Portland, Ore., City Commissioner Kenneth Cooper bemoaned the nickel bonus added to his $5,000 salary, complained that it boosted him into a higher income-tax bracket...
...Coffee Club. Next morning the President engineered one of the little scenes that most delight him. Dropping into the five-&-dime store, in search of Mayor Roger T. Sermon, Harry Truman happily joined the "coffee club" at the soda fountain. Perched on a stool, sipping a nickel Coke, enjoying the giggling confusion of the fountain girl, Harry Truman had the time of his life...
...kinds of price news made Page One last week in the New York Herald Tribune. Butter & eggs were down; the Trib itself was up-from 3? to a nickel a day. Three out of four of the country's 1,750 dailies had beaten the Trib...
...Manhattan's nine dailies are now a nickel except the twopenny tabloids, the Mirror and Daily News, and the bulky Times, which sells its ad-rich product (at 3?) for little more than it pays for the blank paper (newsprint has jumped from $48 to $84 a ton since...
...winter morning a good driver, as he speeds past, can hit as many as a dozen fist-flourishing bystanders with the spray from his wheels. Years of diving through elbowing passengers to collect the 10? fares has given many a conductor the temperament of a yegg; most ram their nickel-plated, jingling coin-collectors at the entering passenger's belly like a gunman wielding...