Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...automobiles made after New Year's Day will be sans nickel, chromium or aluminum brightwork. This was the decision made last week at a three-hour Washington confab between the automakers and civilian supply boss Leon Henderson...
...formal order, to be issued very soon, will forbid the use of nickel, chromium, copper or aluminum in nonfunctional automobile parts. These are the principal materials in the huge shiny grilles, glistening hub caps and sparkling trim which garnish the 1942 models. An important exception: bumpers, tagged "functional" after an acrimonious Government-industry semantic fight...
...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...