Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nickel Sirs...
...wonder how many people noticed that your cut of the new Jefferson nickel (TIME, Aug. 1) is slightly "flattened at the poles...
According to previous schedule a new Jefferson nickel was to appear this month as a successor to the buffalo nickel which has been in circulation since 1913. Last week the Bureau of the Mint announced that the public would have to wait till October. Reason: The Federal Fine Arts Commission did not like the original design (TIME, May 2), insisted on a new style of lettering on the coin, on changes in the detail of Thomas Jefferson's head on the obverse, on Artist Felix Schlag's redesigning the reverse so as to show Jefferson's home...
...steel companies and first manufacturer of boiler plate, 128-year-old Lukens Steel Co. is located at Coatesville near the hard coal country of eastern Pennsylvania. With total assets of $16,000,000, it is 14th largest in the industry, specializes in making steel plates for steamships and locomotives, nickel and chrome quality alloys. Last fiscal year, Lukens' net income was $158,218, biggest since 1929. But its operating costs also increased. When Depression II cut production as low as 35% of capacity, the company cut its payroll almost in half, laid...
Back in 1918, when Ruth McKenney was six and her sister Eileen was five, the movie matinees of Mishawaka. Ind., were a big thing in the lives of the children of the town. They lasted all afternoon, cost only a nickel, and showed a new installment of a serial every day. Since few of the audience could read, childish riots, peanut fights, screams and free-for-alls broke out when subtitles were too long. The fun lasted until the operator switched on the lights and bawled: "Shut up, you brats, or I'll throw you all out." Ruth...