Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nick Beal is a guy who'll double-deal you for a nickel or fifty grand, just so long as it's good and dirty. This time his target is Joseph Foster (Thomas Mitchell), a pious D.A. who is running for Governor. Beal engineers all sorts of deals to get Foster elected, but ruins his reputation as well. And of course Foster has signed away his soul (in writing, very legal), and only saves himself at the last moment by brandishing a Bible in front of Beal's flendish face...
Precaution. In San Diego, police were looking for the two men who robbed the Nu Hotel of $23, then carefully went through Clerk Edwin A. Leonard's pockets and took his last nickel "to keep [him] from calling the police...
Records. RCA Victor posted the prices for its new small records (TIME, Jan. 17). At 68^? for popular discs and $1 for classical ones, they were a nickel higher than Columbia's small Microgroove records. RCA's player-changer, which will sell for $24.95, was $5 less than Columbia's player, which has no automatic changer. But some retailers had already cut Columbia's price...
...games used to glean an inordinate number of foreign coins, carefully shaped discs of tinfoil, and Louisiana sales-tax tokens. But the application of electronic research to the coin slot has made it so selective that it is now apt to balk at a well-worn Buffalo nickel unless it is carefuly coaxed into position. Other complicated circuits have eliminated a former unfortunate tendency for the machines to run away and start distributing free games indiscriminately...
...machine vertically and bounce a ball back up the playing board without tilting it. Another technique, still more refined, is bodily lifting the whole machine and propping the front legs on the player's feet or a brace of matchbooks; this will tilt the machine for the first nickel, but in subsequent games the balls will wobble slowly down the reduced incline and produce game after game...