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...hundreds of Interborough Rapid Transit subways charge through the warm odorous gloom underneath the streets. Uptown they soar to daylight on elevated tracks, downtown they dip beneath the east river to Brooklyn. I. R. T. advertisements say that 1,000,000 people ride them daily. Each ride costs a nickel. I. R. T. potentates have long claimed that the nickel fare is not enough to meet expenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Nickel Victory | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...ferries which daily swish and creak from Manhattan to Staten Island a busy grimy tribe ply their trade. Their cry is "Shine? Shine?"; their trade is polishing shoes for a dime and, by unwritten law, a nickel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shine | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

International Nickel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Crash | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...miles east of Canyon Diablo. That meteorite ploughed a circular hole 4,000 ft. in diameter. 600 ft. deep, and threw up a rim 150 ft. above the surrounding plain. For years miners have been trying to locate its buried mass, for the sake of its iron and nickel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Meteorites | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...Meteorites are of three main types: siderites. metallic; aerolites, stony; siderolites, mixed stone and metal. The Southwest Africa meteorite is 90% iron, 10% nickel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Meteorites | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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