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What Field got for his money (guesstimated price: $100,000) was an old-fashioned print shop in Montgomery, Ala. and an old-fashioned farm journal that loses a nickel on every 25?-a-year subscription but makes it all back and more in advertising at $2.50 a column inch. Two of its eight pages are devoted to stodgy editorial matter, the rest to ads, some offering farm equipment, many hawking sex books, love drops, patent medicines...
Across the Border? Since WPB has denied auto manufacturers the right to use nickel in their new civilian cars, the motor industry is up against the problem of getting chrome trim (nickel is required as a base for chrome plating). Because the U.S. likes shiny metal, some considered trying chrome paint or stainless steel...
...became scarce when hoarders buried and manufacturers melted down copper and nickel coins. Then the Government changed the Brazilian monetary unit from the milreis to the cruzeiro. The paper cruzeiros were ordered printed in the U.S. German submarines sank the entire shipment. But last week an end to Brazil's currency famine was at hand. Frantic officials had rushed a ton of new one and two cruzeiro notes (value: 5? and 10?) from the U.S. to Rio, hoped presently to retire the aspirin tablets...
...Diamond Horseshoe (20th Century-Fox) generally hits the dirt short of the peg; but it clangs out ringers whenever Betty Grable is pitching. It is the loudest and most energetic Grable vehicle in some time. As the Horseshoe's fastest filly, Miss Grable socks out A Nickel's Worth of Jive, dreams of mink coats in the manner of not-quite-a-lady in the dark, misleads and falls in love with young Dr. Dick Haymes, and demonstrates the fact that motherhood's extra pound or so of flesh can improve even the screen's most...
...ignorant of the principles of stresses in metals, they weaken airplane connecting rods by making deep stencils of serial numbers in them). But the Japs have not had to be careful. They have enough copper to make their cartridge cases of brass, have been lavish in the use of nickel, zinc, manganese, aluminum and other precious alloys...