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...likely uses: airplane and jet engine parts (for high strength, lightness and heat resistance); marine hardware (resistance to salt water); industrial equipment where corrosion resistance is important. If titanium does catch on, there is plenty of it. There is more titanium on earth than all the lead, zinc, tin, nickel, copper, gold and silver put together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Metal | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...Regina, Mineral Resources Director W. James Bichan announced the discovery of a copper-nickel deposit in the Grassy Lake area of northeastern Saskatchewan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE PROVINCES: Across the Land | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...with sales dropping, Gene began to shave prices. Corn dropped a nickel. Finally, at 8 p.m., his truck was empty. Dead tired, he and Winnifred set out for home. It had been a good day and there was more than $100 in the pocket of Gene's heavy black pants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ONTARIO: Market Day | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...spite of his hospitality, Hiss insisted, Crosley had never paid a nickel for either apartment or the old Ford car. On the contrary, he had touched Hiss for $35 to $40 in loans. Said Hiss: "I never got back a red cent in currency. But he brought me a rug as part payment. I still have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Confrontation | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...year-old prospector named Ernest Johnson started it all. In two years of experience with radioactive ores around the Eldorado mine on Great Bear Lake, he had noticed that where there was uranium there were also cobalt and nickel. Figuring that the converse should be true, he packed a Geiger counter and pushed up the Roxey Creek valley, 120 miles north of Vancouver, where fallen rock bearing cobalt "bloom" lay in the creek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: BRITISH COLUMBIA: Moose Pasture | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

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