Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite its loud gloom, its indecent crowding, its filth and uriniferous odors, New York City's swift, nickel-fare, 244-mile municipal subway system is the envy of other U.S. cities. This week, as every week, New Yorkers wondered...
Change. In Harrisburg, Pa., Larry Lingle swallowed a nickel, coughed up a penny...
...screen fine enough to .screen out U-235 atoms as they came bouncing through the pipes. It succeeded even though it could not discover why its process worked. Nevertheless they turned out hundreds of acres of such screens. The notable contribution of Chrysler was something which sounded simple-nickel-plating the all-important pipes. The trick that had to be done was to nickel-plate them inside. Not until Chrysler turned the trick could Oak Ridge operate...
...them to help the Nazis. At home, besides its own plants, I.G. controlled another 380 German firms. As armorer for the Nazis, I.G. made all of Germany's synthetic rubber and lubricating oil; 95% of its poison gases (Farben tested them on concentration camp inmates); 90% of the nickel; 88% of the magnesium, most of the gasoline and explosives for the buzz-bombs...
...rays knock neutrons out of silver atoms, turning them into an unstable silver isotope, which breaks down into cadmium, giving off powerful streams of electrons. Some silver, too, is turned into palladium, while some of the copper in the coin's alloy is turned into atoms of nickel.* The betatron is controlled from a neighboring room...