Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite his tendency to nurse a nickel like a sick child, Hope lives well. His white-brick, 15-room, English-farmhouse-style home, a drive and a mashie shot from Crosby's, lacks only a swimming pool to be the complete Hollywood home...
Baly records some curious experiments. In his laboratory in 1928 he achieved the photosynthesis of formaldehyde, glucose, starch, other organic compounds in a test-tube solution of carbon dioxide. As a catalyst he used nickel carbonate instead of chlorophyll (which no chemist has yet got to work outside the veins of plants). But neither Baly nor any other chemist, using identical methods, has ever succeeded in repeating the experiment...
Baly next succeeded in laboratory photosynthesis with nickel oxide. He is much impressed by similarities between his nickel-catalyzed photosynthesis and the natural chlorophyll-catalyzed process. Both act alike under variations of light and temperature...
...when he formed the Gerity-Adrian Mfg. Corp. (Adrian, Mich.). From 17 employes to begin with, he reached a peak of 960 early this year, plating door handles and radiator trimmings for automobiles, household hardware, etc. His basic manufacturing process reads like a roster of scarce materials: he uses nickel anodes for chrome-plating zinc die castings, which can't be made without aluminum. His best customer: General Motors, whose A. C. Spark Plug Co. can make die castings for G.M. from the scrap aluminum that other G.M. plants produce in the course of manufacturing, and from the zinc...
...Arthur H. du Grenier Co. of Haverhill, Mass, (vending machines for candy, gum, cigarets) has had to cut production 30-50%, employment one-third, not only because of the die-casting shortage but for lack of steel and of cobalt nickel for the magnet that rejects phony coins. Du Grenier has no defense business. Says Treasurer Bouchard: "We are very much worried about the future...