Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some other metals were even scarcer.Washington predicted a shortage of 11,000 tons of copper in April alone.The Government diverted to industry 150 million Ibs. of stockpiled aluminum and another 3,000,000 Ibs. of nickel...
Another Breland project is to reform U.S. zoos. Breland believes that zoo animals should be trained to perform instinctive acts when given a triggering signal. In a Breland-type zoo, the spectator could put a nickel in a slot if he wanted to see the monkeys dance or the hippo plunge into his pool. For a larger coin, a quarter perhaps, he might see a lion charge out of a thicket and leap with hideous roars on a simulated gazelle...
...earth, Professor Ramsey believes the same pressure effect comes into play. Since the deep interior of the earth is extremely dense, geologists generally assume that it is made of heavy nickel-iron. Ramsey's theory is that the core is chemically much the same as the crust. Toward the center, the pressure is great enough to crush familiar rocky materials into heavy metals...
...from 18 foreign countries), automobiles (300 items from 56 foreign countries) and shoe polish (eight items from abroad) would be scarce and more expensive. Said Harold Stassen last year: "The U.S. depends on the outside world for 100% of its tin, mica, asbestos and chrome, for 99% of its nickel, 95% of its manganese, 93% of its cobalt, 67% of its wool, 65% of its bauxite, 55% of its lead, 42% of its copper...
From time to time Dulles was interrupted by Cabinet members, e.g., Treasury Secretary George Humphrey asked what the Paris agreement would cost the U.S. and Dulles replied: "It isn't going to cost us a nickel extra." Later, Dulles confessed that "I was going to say $6 billion. Then Humphrey was going to faint, and we were going to carry him out in front of everybody...