Word: brightwork
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...good reason for these how-to-make-money sessions. In automobiles, OPA's biggest aim is to reduce new car sales, thus save materials for defense. That is why it barred brightwork. Now it wants dealers to avoid any price-cutting that would boom sales...
...automobiles made after New Year's Day will be sans nickel, chromium or aluminum brightwork. This was the decision made last week at a three-hour Washington confab between the automakers and civilian supply boss Leon Henderson...
Tough as the rule sounds, Detroit was glad to get a specific rule on brightwork. Automotive engineers have stewed over the problem for months without knowing just what goal they were working towards. Furthermore, Leon's order may not prove so tough. Stainless steel is not-as yet-on the list of verboten materials. Even if that is taken away, the automakers have plenty of substitutes. Ford has perfected an all-glass tail light; General Motors has some highly lustrous enamels; almost all makers have new decorative plastics. These should keep U.S. cars the flashiest in the world...
...Nash (15 models) underlined the trend to longer and lower bodies, thicker grilles and bumpers, more brightwork than ever...
...Japanese spies. Army and Navy men think so too. Many a destroyer commander on patrol before Pearl Harbor has stopped a fancy, high-powered motorboat inside the restricted zone, has had bland apologies from its Japanese crew. But none has failed to notice that the boat's brightwork was gleaming, that the three or four men aboard looked uncommon bright and neat for fishermen, had binoculars handy. Thickening the mystery was the fact that many of these fishing craft were owned by Orientals who were actually clerks, laborers and housewives...