Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months ago Cooke was sent to Brazil with an economic staff to determine what the U.S. can do to speed up Brazilian industrial output for the war. He saw magnificent resources-largest high-grade iron deposits in the world, rich bauxite fields, big nickel deposits, unlimited water power. Last week Cooke was ready to return to the U.S. With Joao Alberto he issued a prospectus of the report he will submit to the U.S. Government...
...maximum; days over par can dock it to a minimum of $60,000. Every item chargeable to the building of a ship the Maritime Commission pays. Thus Pete Newell and associates stand to make more than $5 million on the 84 ships without putting up a nickel of their own, and despite alleged incompetence, inefficiency and delay...
When the fiery little Mayor ran bookmakers out of Times Square, they simply moved across the Hudson River to New Jersey, kept their Manhattan phone numbers, hired special trunk lines so that their patrons could still call them for a nickel. Last week the Mayor finally got the telephone company to discontinue the lines. The only noticeable result, as noted by cynical New York Mirror Sportswriter Dan Parker: "Bookmakers' clerks . . . [have] writer's cramp from notifying their clients by mail every day what the new telephone number...
...substitute for chromium and nickel plating, indium takes a high polish, is resistant to discoloration. Deposited electrolytically, it diffuses with underlying non-ferrous metals to form a protective coating...
...formation of a pool of other steel fabricators to do the job. Today the pool comprises 28 companies, 31 plants, and turns put 51% of all tank armor plate made in the U.S. Equally important, the pool makes the plate of special steels which use no precious nickel...