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...stroke of noon. "Look at those guys," said a newsman astonished by the first scrambling sprint for position. "They've got million-dollar legs and five-cent heads." But by the time the field reached the first check point in Framingham, the tangle had unwound. The nickel noggins had dropped back; a Staten Island, N.Y. schoolteacher named William Welsh was striding easily in the lead. Close on the pace, a scant 100 yards back, came Eino Pulkkinen, a smooth-running Finn, and Nick Costes, a Natick, Mass, schoolteacher who finished ninth last year. Almost unnoticed, in 13th place...
Some other metals were even scarcer.Washington predicted a shortage of 11,000 tons of copper in April alone.The Government diverted to industry 150 million Ibs. of stockpiled aluminum and another 3,000,000 Ibs. of nickel...
Another Breland project is to reform U.S. zoos. Breland believes that zoo animals should be trained to perform instinctive acts when given a triggering signal. In a Breland-type zoo, the spectator could put a nickel in a slot if he wanted to see the monkeys dance or the hippo plunge into his pool. For a larger coin, a quarter perhaps, he might see a lion charge out of a thicket and leap with hideous roars on a simulated gazelle...
...earth, Professor Ramsey believes the same pressure effect comes into play. Since the deep interior of the earth is extremely dense, geologists generally assume that it is made of heavy nickel-iron. Ramsey's theory is that the core is chemically much the same as the crust. Toward the center, the pressure is great enough to crush familiar rocky materials into heavy metals...
...from 18 foreign countries), automobiles (300 items from 56 foreign countries) and shoe polish (eight items from abroad) would be scarce and more expensive. Said Harold Stassen last year: "The U.S. depends on the outside world for 100% of its tin, mica, asbestos and chrome, for 99% of its nickel, 95% of its manganese, 93% of its cobalt, 67% of its wool, 65% of its bauxite, 55% of its lead, 42% of its copper...