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...talks in London with Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden were quickly followed by diplomatic action. Simultaneous U.S.British notes cracked down on neutrals supplying Germany with ball bearings, chromium, tungsten. Toughening their attitudes, the Allies emphasized Cordell Hull's warning that neutrals must abandon munitions trade with Germany or face the consequences...
...what cinemaddicts saw in Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Greer Garson, was something old and cherished in their hearts, but new and unexpected on the screen-the Ideal (if overidealized) Woman. Not a full-bosomed, cottontailed babe, a chromium goddess, an uncrowned martyr or a vampire bat, but a woman who simply looked and acted the way any grownup, good woman should. Miss Garson's beauty was neither parasitic nor predatory, but rich and kind. She wore the sort of ample, archaic dresses in which many cinemaddicts tenderly remembered themselves, their wives, or their mothers. She did not make love...
Henry Ford's reasoning-if this is it-is obvious: car buyers may be more interested in getting places than in getting chromium cigaret lighters...
...sweaty research has gone into adapting steel to cartridges for the hungry gullets of tommy guns, Brownings, Chicago pianos and automatic cannon. The researchers had plenty of troubles. One of the worst was the shortage of such alloying elements as nickel, chromium, tung sten and molybdenum. But eventually they developed a noncritical steel which would expand on firing to seal the breech, then contract quickly enough to permit ejection of the empty case...
...slogan was Lucky's way of saying that there would no longer be enough chrome green ( a derivative of bichromate) to make green ink. But WPB, which lifted restrictions on chromium last September after originally cutting its commercial use, denied that there was any special war purpose for chrome green. There were rumors that Lucky Strike, which sold more cigarets (59,500,000,000) last year than any other U.S. tobacco company, wanted a white package to compete with Chesterfield for the female trade. There was no question, at any rate, but that white packages were cheaper to produce...