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...wheel in Modesto, Calif., Smith had to close up shop in the '30s when he "backed the wrong man for district attorney." Ray sent his son Harold to Reno, and soon the young man started Harold's Club with the old family roulette wheel and two battered nickel slot machines. Then Smith and his other son joined Harold...
streets Speak together with their nickel...
shortages of strategic materials contained in the Paley Report (TIME, June 30, 1952), none were more pessimistic than the facts about U.S. nickel supplies: U.S. production was almost nil, yet U.S. nickel requirements would be doubled by 1975. Last week brighter news about the U.S. nickel outlook came from Canada. Falconbridge Nickel Mines Ltd. began development of a new mine in northern Ontario on an estimated lode of 10 million tons of rich copper-nickel ore. A nine-year U.S. Government contract insures that practically all the mine's output will...
Falconbridge will deliver 100 million Ibs. of refined nickel to the U.S. by 1962, at a premium price of $1 a lb., 40? higher than the current market price. Canadian mining men call it "the biggest metal deal ever made in Canada...
...many strategic materials, another downward pressure is the fact that the U S has already bought 78% of its scheduled $7.5 billion of stockpiles. Some metals -cobalt, chrome and nickel-are still critically scarce, and still high. But the supply of copper is now improving to the point where it looks as if the world price of 36?, which is 4? a lb. higher than the U.S. price, is more likely to drop to meet the U.S. price than vice versa...