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Copper Boom. In Indianola, Miss., a restaurateur offered to sell a cup of coffee for an out-of-date Indianhead penny, discovered that a local coin collector had 2,000 of them for sale at three for a nickel...
...major U.S. life-insurance companies are raising prices. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., world's biggest insurer, last week announced that premiums on all ordinary policies sold after Jan. 1 will be upped "slightly less than 10%." Because they were not raised in 1935, rates on "industrial" policies (nickel-a-day burial insurance for the poor) will be increased even more. Rates on existing policies remain unchanged...
...days Lawyer J. R. Stirrett cooled his heels in the offices of International Nickel Co. in Copper Cliff, Ont.-unable to get past the reception desk to transact some business. The cooler his heels got, the hotter he got under the collar...
...automobiles made after New Year's Day will be sans nickel, chromium or aluminum brightwork. This was the decision made last week at a three-hour Washington confab between the automakers and civilian supply boss Leon Henderson...
...formal order, to be issued very soon, will forbid the use of nickel, chromium, copper or aluminum in nonfunctional automobile parts. These are the principal materials in the huge shiny grilles, glistening hub caps and sparkling trim which garnish the 1942 models. An important exception: bumpers, tagged "functional" after an acrimonious Government-industry semantic fight...