Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pinball is rapidly breaking down into a direct war between distributor and student. A good pinball artist, whom the inhabitants of the pinball-and-cheeseburger emporiums like to call a "fifty-mission-man," frequently can accumulate free games all afternoon on one nickel; the distributors are constantly making the machines more difficult...
...nickel cigar was back in Manhattan and the $1.99 shirt in Kansas City. A basket of groceries which cost a Des Moines housewife $4.19 a year ago could be bought last week for $3.29. The papers advertised sales in everything from bed sheets to mink coats...
LYNNE L. WHITE, 59, moved up from executive vice president to president of the N.Y., Chicago & St. Louis Railroad (Nickel Plate). Groomed for the job by his predecessor and old friend, the late John W. Davin, White is an up-from-office-boy railroad veteran of 44 years, who had been vice president of three other roads before joining the Nickel Plate six months ago. In 1948, the Nickel Plate's first independent year after separation from the Chesapeake & Ohio, he helped President Davin pile up a gross of $109 million and net of $15 million, greatest...
...Lincoln carried a Waltham), it often ran erratically, and almost failed after World War I. Boston's tough Frederic C. Dumaine, an old hand at finding gold in depleted tills,* bought control and resurrected Waltham. To make Waltham pay off, he dropped the designing department, and grudged every nickel spent on advertising, thus let the name be drowned out by younger companies. After cashing in on war contracts, Dumaine sold out in 1944 to Ira Guilden, ex-vice president of the Bulova Watch Co. and former brother-in-law of Watchmaker Arde Bulova...
Babe Ruth died, and true grief dropped into public bathos; a coal miner's daughter nicknamed "Bobo" married into the Rockefeller clan; Manhattan's nickel subway fare went to a dime; the year's most popular book on human behavior was by a zoologist named Kinsey...