During his lifetime he found 1,296,000,000 pennies, 480 nickels, 1900 dimes, 16000 quarters, 200 half dollars and thousands of crinkled dollar bills. He accumulated quite a bank account in his lifetime. He pride
“I turned in the non-keepers once a month, but never at the bank where I received them. Tellers were very cooperative, save for one who was really put out by my returning so many rolls of pennies.” One wonders if that same aggravation would have been felt had it been another denomin...
but in New York City, engineers and builders had scraped the sky. The Saturday, May 28 edition of The New York Timesreported on the opening of the Empire State Building, then the tallest—and still one of the grandest and most iconic—building on Earth. ...