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...Metal and Men. Oil and metals were running short in Germany. The Nazi Air Force and Army were reported squabbling for the available supply, even in such critical areas as the surging Normandy front. Chromium and manganese were desperately short, the nickel from tottering Finland might soon be lost to the Reich's thoroughly battered industrial machine...
...where time meant something to the Germans. They wanted to keep the Soviets' 20 divisions (plus reserves) in Finland tied up there as long as possible, to stave them off their own necks at Narva. They were desperately anxious to keep the Russians away from Petsamo and its nickel mines, away from the Petsamo air base from which German planes sniped at Allied shipping in the Arctic...
...great gaping hole directly in front of him, frantically dragged his heels and lifted his toes, applied the brakes and was able to stop just in time. It is still a tough job: "I have to stop on a dime-and I don't mean a nickel." Three years ago, at the Center, he "missed the dime," pitched over the footlights, broke...
...Shipments to Russia included 13,500 tons of aluminum, 11,700 tons of lead, 1,500 tons of nickel, 120,000 tons of flour, 10,000 tons of wheat. Many Russian merchantmen were serviced and repaired in Canadian ports...
Maypole Dance. To avoid credit inflation, Mr. Morgenthau ruled that not a nickel of his $16-billion Fifth War Loan could be sold to commercial banks. This rule has, to a considerable extent, been circumvented. A good part of the Fifth, like 20% of the previous War Loan, which was similarly restricted, is being financed by bank credit. This is easily done to get the cash with which to buy the current loan, insurance companies, savings banks and other investors "dump" Government securities by selling them to commercial banks. With the proceeds they buy bonds of the new issue. Naturally...