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With test tube and spectroscope, the metallurgists reconstructed a revealing picture of arms-making inside the Axis countries. The Germans started the war with meager supplies of copper, nickel, molybdenum, vanadium, chromium, manganese-all considered vital for war. They showed great skill and ingenuity in finding workable substitutes. As early as 1934 they began to make shell cases of copper-coated steel instead of brass (which uses more copper). As war ate up their copper stocks, they shifted to electrolytic copper plating (a thinner coat), finally to a rust-retarding lacquer coating containing no copper...
...Lacking nickel for hardening steel in armor plate, they first substituted chromium and molybdenum alloys, then used thin sheets of steel bonded together, which require much less alloy for hardening than does a single thick plate. The analysis showed the Germans used their small supply of alloy metals again & again, by painstakingly sorting the scrap from their wrecked armor, according to its alloy content...
...good dentifrice "is not gritty and does not contain an acid." Grit test: use a nickel to rub some dentifrice on a piece of glass; if the glass is not scratched, the teeth presumably will...
...fact that our soldiers were underfed and thinly clad." In a national campaign to "comfort the troops," great sums of money were collected. Little was donated direct to the Government for disbursement by slow-moving bureaucrats. But millions of Chinese dollars (on current approved rate, each worth a U.S. nickel) were sent every day to the independent newspaper, Ta Rung Pao, with such covering letters as: "I am giving the money to our soldiers through you, because I know that through you the soldiers will...
...smokers last week got good news: OPA ordered manufacturers to start making "five-cent" cigars-something the consumer had not seen since last summer. There was the usual slight hitch: the 5? cigar will cost the smoker 7½?. But the 90% of U.S. cigar smokers who ordinarily smoke nickel cigars, have been paying from 10? to 25? for brands they never heard...