Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passed the Connally amendment to the draft act, which gave the President specific authority to seize defense plants when mediation fails and a labor dispute threatens to tie up the arms program. Already passed by the House was a gigantic Army appropriation bill with a provision that not one nickel of the money should go to companies or workers who defied recommendations of the Mediation Board. And the Department of Justice was reported to be planning to blacklist radicals and advise employers to kick them...
...Physicist Edlen demonstrated that the corona probably consists mostly of heavier elements like iron, calcium, nickel. This was a big surprise to astronomers. Surprise No. 2 was Edlen's calculation that this high excitation which causes such heavy atoms to give off new spectrum lines must indicate coronal temperatures...
...other ways, war's pinch tightened enough last week to raise more than aluminum bruises on the U.S. economic body. To the list of metals already under mandatory Government control (aluminum, magnesium, nickel, nickel-steel, ferrotungsten) Ed Stettinius added copper, may soon have to add zinc and other metals now under partial control. He also warned manufacturers looking for substitutes to steer clear of other essentials to defense. At the same time Franklin Roosevelt appointed Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, who talked of gasless Sundays, Government tsar of the oil industry...
...themselves: mechanization. Sales of agricultural machinery are up 20% this year, bid fair to set an alltime record by year's end. To help farmers buy still more machinery, the Agriculture Department has lined up with the farm implement industry for preferred treatment on the materials (steel, aluminum, nickel, etc.) the industry needs. But one shortage always breeds another: in Illinois last week, farm equipment dealers complained that they couldn't keep enough good service men to make repairs...
Expansion or no, it was clear this week that steel's private rationing system will soon have to be exchanged for an official one. There are current shortages in plates for ships and railroad cars, in nickel steels, in structural shapes; yet many a non-defense customer (notably the auto industry) gets all the steel it needs...