Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Republicans were more hopeful than helpful. "We've got to cut out the dessert," declared Minority Leader Joe Martin. He was sure $4 to $5 billion could be melted off with ease. New York's nickel-minded John Taber thought at least $3 or $4 billion could be saved. But the Republicans still had not dug up a single specific recipe for doing...
...National Production Authority a plan, worked out by the Cuban Association of Manufacturers and endorsed by the government and the major unions, to gear the island's production to U.S. defense needs. Cuba would help mainly by expanding production of sugar, alcohol, textiles and minerals, especially nickel and manganese...
Scattered for miles around the crater are fragments of meteoric material. The soil itself, in spots, is full of microscopic droplets of nickel-iron (many thousands of them in each cubic foot). The fragments differ in chemical composition; some have melted, vaporized or been altered by heat. By studying such clues for more than ten years, Nininger has reconstructed what the "cosmo-terrestrial encounter" was like...
...Banned the use of nickel in automobile trim, ashtrays, jewelry and some 400 other civilian items after April...
Last week, after solemn thought, the New York City Board of Education placed an order for 50,000 pounds of nickel-silver alloy. The purpose: to provide every schoolchild in the city with a G.I.-type identification tag bearing name, address, and (if arrangements for large-scale typing can be made) blood-type. The board hoped to have the tags ready by spring...