Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Westinghouse's World's Fair site on Long Island, they bored a narrow well 50 ft. deep, lined it with double steel tubing, stoppered it at the bottom with concrete and sand. The capsule, a cartridge seven and a half feet long, was made of a Westinghouse nickel and silver alloy copper, lined with Pyrex glass, emptied of air, filled with inert nitrogen. Among the objects which went into it were a woman's hat, razor, can opener, fountain pen, pencil, tobacco pouch with zipper, pipe, tobacco, cigarets, camera, eyeglasses, toothbrush; cosmetics, textiles, metals and alloys, coal...
Much as Republicans like to talk about the Relief billions that finance the "New Deal Party," the actual Democratic Party may well have to nickel along this year. Last week, as Campaign Chieftain Ed Flynn busied himself lining up Midwest Democratic leaders and drafting Speaker William Brockman Bankhead to run the Southern sector of the campaign (headquarters in Birmingham), Democrats learned that their party's war chest is down to a minuscule $70,000. Candidate Henry Wallace planned to save money by touring rural districts in an Oldsmobile borrowed from his secretary, Jim Le Cron. Meantime Candidate Franklin Roosevelt...
...people in Callaway Park. At 9 a.m. 20,000 of the 30,000 seats were taken. An hour later, when the heat of the day began, the crowd had grown to 60,000, though the speech was still seven hours away. Downtown the special trains were unloading at the Nickel Plate and Pennsylvania stations; the crowd shuffled through sweltering side streets into the river of humanity that filled Elwood's main Anderson Street from curb to curb-a river that emptied, after a crooked mile, into the surging sea at Callaway Park...
Last year Oscar Bach announced he had hit upon a process for coloring tough, corrosion-resistant 18-8 (18% chromium, 8% nickel) stainless steel. In the Bachite process, the steel is first "pickled" (cleaned with acid), then coated in a chemical bath and heated. Depending on the degree of baking, the coated steel turns black, gold, bronze, purple, blue, red or green, the color becoming an integral part of the surface. Oscar Bach will not reveal the chemicals in the coating bath. "The formula," says he, "is so simple I'm almost ashamed of it." The Bachite process...
Chief import gains were in rubber and tin from the East Indies, nickel from Canada, wool from Argentina and South Africa. Since RFC has only recently begun its purchases of strategic materials, these gains were likely to grow. But, for the six months, total imports were up only 18%. Result was a U. S. merchandise export balance of $773,927,000-highest for any half-year period since...