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...Soviet Union, whose recent acquisitions include Finnish nickel, Lithuanian butter, Estonian cellulose, Tannu Tuvan asbestos, last week marched on to pistachio nuts...
...pursuit of costs, magazine prices were going up. First Curtis hiked Ladies' Home Journal, once a dime, from 15? to a quarter. LIFE this week went up a nickel to 15?. Nation and New Republic whispered to each other, decided they could get $6 a year instead...
...decided to strike out for himself with $50,000 in savings. The time, 1942, was a bad one for a newcomer to break into the clothing field. But Henry was lucky and shrewd. Dressmakers had heard that OPA planned to reduce prices on dress materials by imposing ceilings. So nickel-wise manufacturers wiggled out of tentative contracts with suppliers. Rosenfeld was smarter-he took a loss by accepting every yard contracted for. Grateful cloth manufacturers did not forget this. When materials grew scarce, Rosenfeld got first choice...
...Patterson could understand the issue of the nickel subway, and the fact that two battleships were better than one. But larger facts were beyond him: facts like the world's oneness. He resented the spread of Communism but was entirely willing to let the whole of Europe go Communist. The U.S. was the biggest force in the world, but what happened elsewhere was none of our business-until the bombs landed on the U.S. Uncle Sam became Uncle Sap in C.D. Batchelor's News cartoons, and the outside world was a seductive harlot in a tight silk dress...
...answer, Inco denied that it was a monopoly. It said that nickel prices were so low that the U.S. Government had to subsidize Cuban mines during the war to enable them to compete with Inco. This seemed to sharpen Justice's point that Inco owns all economically workable nickel deposits in the Western Hemisphere. Submarginal mines such as Cuba's can compete only with subsidies...