Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chemist Boyer last week hoped for "limited production" by 1943, said "there's lots of development work to do." Plastic bodies would relieve some of Detroit's immediate worries over steel and chrome, but not over copper, zinc, nickel, other shortages. Nor could it easily get the new presses and tools to work the plastics. But in normal times, plastic cars would take some 10% of the steel industry's market and give it to farmers. The new Ford was the first gun in a technological revolution that may begin when the other guns are stilled...
Shortages. "The worst shortages already upon us are those in aluminum, magnesium, copper and nickel. There will be hardly enough aluminum to build the planes we know we'll need, let alone supply other military needs. . . . We have in this country only about a half-year's supply of rubber. . . . Wool and tin are also short. . . . The U.S. has little more than a thimbleful of high-grade chromite deposits from which to make ferrochrome, the master alloy in stainless and chrome steels. Supplies depend on the sea lanes and tons of chromite are already piling up in Rhodesia...
...stock in 1927-28, much of it to the late, great, foxy Leonor Fresnel Loree. The next year ICC came out with its "final'' consolidation plan. Instead of the four systems expected by the Eastern railroads (New York Central, Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio-Erie-Nickel Plate), ICC proposed five-the fifth being a looping road-to-nowhere based on the Wabash and Seaboard. And instead of approving the Pennsy's expensive purchase, ICC began anti-trust proceedings...
Typical problems for Sir Kenneth: The June issue of the British Export Gazette contained an advertisement offering all kinds of electric equipment plus copper and aluminum for immediate delivery anywhere. Chicago's Zenith Radio Corp. recently had a cable from Britain offering alnico, an alloy of aluminum, nickel, copper and iron unavailable in the U.S. because of priorities, essential to Zenith's battery sets. In both cases deliveries were stopped by British export control...
Samaritan. In Manhattan, an inventor displayed a doorbell requiring a nickel deposit, called it a "salesman repeller...