Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reached a circulation peak of 2,700,000-second in the weekly field. It now claims only 1,400,000 -down over half a million from last year and its guarantee has been reduced all the way to 1,100,000. Ever since it upped its price from a nickel to a dime in April, following the Satevepost's lead, Liberty's sales have been sharply off-its subscriptions have not had time to be affected materially, but newsstand sales have dropped almost one-third and boy sales over 60%. Advertising revenue, always slim, dropped...
...Government could collect all the automobiles in used-car lots. The Government could take the iron railings from around yards, balconies and estates. The Government could take the chromium plated and nickel-plated fixtures from homes. If it were done without favoritism, the American people would approve it. More than that, they would applaud...
...checks in Alaska are no longer settled with bags of Klondike gold, but pennies are still so scarce in the Territory that last week Leon Henderson had to modify his general maximum price order, froze Alaskan prices to the nearest nickel instead of the nearest cent...
Copper, zinc and nickel are cruelly short, with about one-fifth of the U.S.'s essential third-quarter needs going begging. On zinc, in fact, WPB still has no adequate estimate of what over-all requirements really are. And despite Canada's overwhelming share (80-85%) of world nickel production, war industry is gobbling it up so fast that would-be users are being shifted to other metals...
Some metal supplies are in good shape-at least so far as essential needs are concerned. Lead and antimony, on WPB's requirements list, both show a slight excess of supply. Though manganese is now taking some of the load off nickel, the supply situation looks good enough-so that imports have recently been curtailed, at least temporarily. Chromium is one metal about which U.S. stockpilers were so forehanded that-combined with new domestic production (see below)-all appears to be well...