Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fund member, "we wanted him to continue what we all looked on as a kind of California crusade for good government. Dick didn't have a dime of his own. So this fund was set up to cover his extraordinary expenses outside his office. Dick never got a nickel of it for personal use. And we were most careful to screen the contributors. We didn't want anybody contributing who might use the fact as a lever on Dick's voting...
...General Services Administration announced last week that its $42 million nickel processing plant at Nicaro in eastern Cuba is going full blast again. Built by the U.S. Government during World War II and shut down after the peace because of its steep operating costs, the plant was reopened last year to help meet the urgent need for heat-resistant nickel alloys for jet engines. According to GSAdministrator Jess Larson, Nicaro's furnaces are "already operating 8% higher in efficiency" than last time, and their output is "rapidly rising towards the projected goal of 30 million pounds a year." This...
...figures were important, not only because the plant belongs to U.S. taxpayers but also because the manner of its reopening last year caused something of a row. Passing over the firm which had run Nicaro during the war, GSA awarded the operating contract to the Nickel Processing Co., mainly because it offered to boost Nicaro's annual output from 25 to 31 million Ibs. But on the August showing, Nickel Processing, now owned 60% by National Lead Co. and 40% by Cuban interests, was producing at the rate of 24 million Ibs. a year-less than the best World...
...hopes that the Oklahoma meteorite will clinch his case. The established theory is that meteorites were parts of a broken-up planet. Some of them are made of stony material; some are metallic, mostly iron and nickel. A few are mixtures of stone and metal...
Strange Stuff. The weakness of this theory is that all meteorites should show signs of having solidified from the molten state. Most of them do, but a very few (only three or four) are classified as "granular hexahedrites." They are made of iron and nickel, says La Paz, but the material is not homogenous and crystalline, as it would have to be if it had solidified from a liquid. Instead, the strange material from space is slapped together haphazardly in irregular gobs...