Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enterprise and ingenuity. The kids lost money. Friday they combined the stuff they had left, opened up for business and said they were going to stay open until they sold it. They are selling their sandwiches, pop and coffee at the reduced rate of a nickel. . . . We ought all to give the kids a break, come uptown and help them out of the hole...
This week Germany stood all but alone. Finland was following Rumania out of the war, more decisively than had feckless Bulgaria (see FOREIGN NEWS). With her went her priceless stores of nickel, manganese and cobalt. Fat, foolish Hungary lay open to the Russians. The "holy soil" of the Reich itself had already been torn by the tracks of U.S. tanks. The haze before the beast's eyes deepened. Soon night would shut...
...Metal and Men. Oil and metals were running short in Germany. The Nazi Air Force and Army were reported squabbling for the available supply, even in such critical areas as the surging Normandy front. Chromium and manganese were desperately short, the nickel from tottering Finland might soon be lost to the Reich's thoroughly battered industrial machine...
...where time meant something to the Germans. They wanted to keep the Soviets' 20 divisions (plus reserves) in Finland tied up there as long as possible, to stave them off their own necks at Narva. They were desperately anxious to keep the Russians away from Petsamo and its nickel mines, away from the Petsamo air base from which German planes sniped at Allied shipping in the Arctic...
...great gaping hole directly in front of him, frantically dragged his heels and lifted his toes, applied the brakes and was able to stop just in time. It is still a tough job: "I have to stop on a dime-and I don't mean a nickel." Three years ago, at the Center, he "missed the dime," pitched over the footlights, broke...