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Have your men (and why not women too?) take their lunch in a package, and they could ride back and forth reading TIME conspicuously between Bowling Green and Brooklyn Bridge all day for a nickel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 21, 1927 | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

Congressman White, 49, was born in Maine, graduated from famed Bowdoin* college, went promptly to Washington as a political clerk. Outside of Maine and the District of Columbia he has never earned a nickel; result: he is a skillful legislator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Air Patrol | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

Wheeling & Lake Erie's. controlling shares owned by John D. Rockfeller Sr. were sold to the New York Central (Patrick E. Crowley, President), the Baltimore & Ohio (Daniel Willard, President) and the Nickel Plate R. R.* (Van Sweringen brothers, owners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Railroads | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

Chesapeake & Ohio (controlled by the Van Sweringens and their Nickel Plate R. R.) voted $59,502,400 to buy control of the Pere Marquette (now controlled by Van Sweringens) and the Erie (now controlled by Van Sweringens with the aid of George F. Baker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Railroads | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...diligently inspect the Emerson and Fielding shelf for some time without apparently being able to discover just what he wanted. When I asked if he could be helped he replied quickly, 'Oh, yes, I was looking to see if there was anybody here who would give me two nickels for a dime. I wanted to telphone.' I insisted that he take the only nickel. I had in change although he wanted to give me the dime. He went away happy, and returned the loan the next...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Few Books Stray From Farnsworth Room, Where Student Peruses "Punch" Daily and Librarian Lends a Nickel | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

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