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PRICE RISE will help pay for $115 million expansion by Canada's International Nickel Co., world's biggest nickel producer. Company is boosting prices 9½? a lb., by 1960 will increase annual capacity by 50% to 385 million Ibs. Inco is opening two big new mines in Mystery-Moak Lakes area of northern Manitoba, building concentrator, smelter, refinery, and city for 8,000 on site...
...NICKEL STOCKPILING will be halted on Jan. 1 for first time since Korean war. Office of Defense Mobilization thinks new sources of supply from Canada and Cuba will soon lick shortage of defense metal", already has big enough hoard to divert 25 million Ibs. of nickel slated for stockpile to private industry in fourth quarter...
...NICKEL PINCH will be eased by vast International Nickel Co. of Canada, Ltd. expansion program. After spending $8,000,000 on exploration, world's biggest nickel producer (six-month sales: $225 million) will shell out $150 million to bring huge new nickel source at Moak Lake, Man. into production. At full production, Moak Lake will probably be world's second biggest nickel center, topped only by INCO's own Sudbury, Ont. operation...
...Strobel's boss, General Services Administrator Edmund Mansure, resigned under Administration pressure after charges that he had helped give a $40,000 insurance contract at the U.S. Government's nickel plant in Nicaro, Cuba to an old Chicago political crony, William J. Balmer...
...Stand Still. When they swarmed over the X2, engineers found welcome news. Made of heat-resistant stainless steel and nickel alloy with a specially tempered windshield designed to withstand 1,000° F. temperatures, the X-2 was built to probe the "thermal thicket" of supersonic speeds where the heat generated by friction with the atmosphere can turn metal into putty. But there were no thorns in the thicket for the X2. She was untouched...