Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aluminum shortage was officially buried last week, on the anniversary of the first big aluminum scare. Funeral orator was WPB's Bill Batt, who said that while the U.S. was still hard-pressed for steel, copper, nickel, manganese and many other metals, it is now "comfortably fixed" on aluminum. Another WPB man followed through with word that: "We are delivering aluminum to the planemakers now that will not be flown away in a plane until late fall...
...fell hard. Madeline fell for him too. He was not bad looking in a Broadway way. So Eli and Madeline lived together in inexpensive hotels, skipping out when they got too broke to pay the bill. That happened every so often. Finally they had hardly a nickel for a cup of coffee. They talked it over, a little desperate now, with a pal they had picked up, John Cullen, who was a West Side punk with a petty police record from way back. They consulted also with the greaseball, dirty Uncle Murray Hirschl...
...year "foreman" who raked in a $25,000 bonus was actually Lincoln's chief metallurgist. He developed a new welding electrode that cut production costs 20%, discovered a new way to weld light and heavy armor plate that saves 20% on nickel and chrome...
Thanks to fatter pay envelopes, cigar sales are also higher. The highest-priced cigars-25? each & up-soared a titanic 64% above 1941. Nickel stogie sales rose only...
...Detroit shuddered over reports that WPB was about to order all of its auto molds and dies (made of high-alloy nickel steel) turned into scrap for munitions. Worth infinitely more than their $60,000,000 valuation in terms of quick postwar conversion to car production, their destruction would ensure a post-war designer's field day (see p. 82), would turn current models into worthless antiques even more surely than wartime rationing of tires...