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...deposit a small amount of mercury in each tube from a mechanical "eye-dropper," which was not very precise. Insufficient mercury, Cox explained, makes the light slump quickly; too much mercury produces blotches and discoloration. Hygrade's new process seals the mercury in long sections of thin nickel tubing, feeds the tubing into a precision machine which nips off "mercury bombs" of specified length, carries the "bombs" under a magnetic device which picks out of line and discards any capsule holding even 1/1,000 gram less than the amount required...
...Jones had handled every pre-Pearl Harbor proposition with a small-town banker's suspicion and a horse-trader's fishy eye. Mr. Jones haggled, saved the U.S. many a nickel, lost the U.S. millions of dollars' worth of them. When defense agencies pleaded with companies to accept wartime orders and expand, Mr. Jones demanded collateral as usual, saw to it that each deal was a rock-sound financial proposition before he certified a Federal loan. In the summer of 1940 he turned a cold shoulder on synthetic rubber manufacture, because he figured that synthetic rubber would...
...more so because she is sure that a year ago, before the boys filled up the Army camps, she could have bought it for the feed bill. So she has decided to start her own magazine, called after her new show, Star & Garter. ("I wouldn't put a nickel in a show, not 5?, but I'd take money from my annuities for a magazine...
...that jewelry makers are denied all use of tin, copper, aluminum, chrome, nickel and iridium, these pieces of raffia, felt, wood, clay and glass are the latest thing-and almost the only thing left-in costume ("junk") jewelry. Whoop-dedoo of the spring season are pieces like a pair of red felt lips clutching a pink felt rose...
...drugstore in Times Square. Into this "poor man's Sardi's," every noon, swarm the occupants of a thousand hall bedrooms, to eat and table-hop, jam the phone booths, swap hard-luck stories, pick up casting tips. Lately they have also been coming to buy a nickel's worth of reading matter...