Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been through voluntary priorities (i.e., suppliers were asked but not ordered to follow Government preferences). To all defense materials except aluminum and machine tools, this halfway control (or none at all) still applied last week. But official pressure on the producers and fabricators of tungsten, zinc, stainless steel, nickel, copper, steadily increased, their control became less and less voluntary. Mandatory priorities were surely in the offing for a big segment of U. S. industry. OPM continued cheery about the situation, just as Mr. Stettinius had been two months before. The President, discussing the steel outlook, was cheerful to the point...
Called geobotany by Engineer Lundberg, this method of prospecting was developed in Sweden. Tin, nickel, silver copper, many other metals can also be located by plant absorption...
...Eleanor Roosevelt's warning to housewives proved none too soon. At the New England Housewares Show in Boston, makers of aluminum ware could not promise deliveries, saw some of the business go to enamelware instead. In Chicago wholesale houseware sales fell off because of the metals shortage (aluminum, nickel, copper). For the same reason Westinghouse dropped three models of refrigerators. (In Manhattan Canada's Controller of Metals reported that Britain's civil use of aluminum had dropped to 2% of its pre-war volume...
...Proclaimed, effective Feb. 3, regulations stringently restricting exports of copper, brass, bronze, zinc, nickel, potash...
...downright insult to whatever intelligence and taste you or I may have. As music they're worthless, and as far as patriotism is concerned, I've heard more convincing stuff from Father Coughlin's radio sermons. So the next time one of us is tempted to throw away a nickel to hear God Bless America on a juke box, let's just remember the British merchantman that was torpedoed in the North Atlantic last summer. She went down pretty fast, but the crew kept their spirits up by singing--not Rule Brittania or Pomp and Circumstance, but just plain Beer...