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...fact that nobody ever pays a nickel to hear a radio play has had a determining influence on radio scripts and script writers. It means that the usual radio play gets no direct response from the customers, very little from impartial reviewers. Radiomen like to talk as if their stuff were attuned to the twitch of intangible millions, but the truth is that no box office and few critics exist...
...From many a U.S. jukebox, in strict dance time, in moody thumps, Freddie Martin's Bluebird record, Piano Concerto in B Flat, had moved in among the ten best nickel pullers...
...Welding electrodes which combine the high electrical conductivity of silver or copper with the heat resistance of tungsten, molybdenum or nickel...
...that it opposed any non-defense industrial expansion which would require too much steel or other scarce materials. Eastman's new facilities would have produced enough plastics to replace 6,000,000 lb. of stainless steel, 8,000,000 lb. of aluminum, 18,000,000 lb. of chrome nickel plated steel, 34,000,000 lb. of zinc. But they would have required both steel and stainless steel to build...
...Arthur, Talon's president since 1939, went to Washington to present the zipper industry's plea for survival to OPM-OPACS. Because slide fasteners have tiny parts with precision fittings, the industry had to use an easily workable copper base. Talon made its fasteners of either nickel silver (65% copper, 18% nickel, 17% zinc) or gilding metal (85% copper, 15% zinc). But to operate at the last twelve months' rate (440,000,000 fasteners), the industry needed just 6,300 tons of copper a year (.6% of U.S. production), 1,600 tons of zinc (.2% of production...