Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Alf M. Landon as a GOPossibility by creating around him the legend of a penny-pinching "Coolidge of Kansas." there have been impressed on the public mind as his two chief qualifications for the Presidency the facts that he: 1) has "balanced" Kansas' budget; 2) makes nickel bets on University of Kansas football games. Last week a shrewd publicity stroke added one more fact to the Landon Legend. Discovering that his 10,000 Happy New Year cards were so large that they required 1½? stamps, Governor Landon had the printer shave them down to if size, thereby...
...More nickel was consumed in 1935 than in any other year in history, Robert Crooks Stanley, head of International Nickel Co., announced last week. World consumption for the first ten months came to 133,300,000 lb., compared to 112,481,000 in the corresponding 1929 period...
Producing about 90% of the world's nickel supply at Sudbury, Ontario, International Nickel has almost a monopoly in its chosen field. There is plenty of nickel in the earth's surface, but it is only in the Sudbury ore that ample supplies of pure nickel can be cheaply extracted from the other elements found in company with it. Even at Sudbury, "cheap" is a relative term, for nickel sells at about 35? per lb., compared with aluminum at 20?, copper at 9?, steel at 2?. Other useful ingredients in Sudbury ore are copper, platinum, gold and silver...
Basis for Nickel's success-and also the reason why it is the international nickel company-is the chemical process for separating the copper from the nickel. Two small U. S. companies had the process, but very little nickel; Canada had plenty of nickel but no process. In 1902 Charles Schwab, now Bethlehem Steel's board chairman, helped to promote a merger of the U. S. and Canadian companies. In 1929 the major competitive mine in the Sudbury area was absorbed, and International Nickel reached its present form...
...Nickel's use in battleship steel and in artillery has given the metal a military overtone much deplored by its sponsors. The British battleships Nelson and Rodney each have about 500,000 lb. of nickel in their 34,000 tons of steel. The French light field pieces, the famed 75's, each contained about 50 lb. of nickel. But there is no nickel in rifles, sabers, bayonets, bombs, shells or shrapnel. In 1934 Nickel's officers estimated that not more than 5% of nickel produced was used for military purposes, whereas 20% was going into automobiles...