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...fell hard. Madeline fell for him too. He was not bad looking in a Broadway way. So Eli and Madeline lived together in inexpensive hotels, skipping out when they got too broke to pay the bill. That happened every so often. Finally they had hardly a nickel for a cup of coffee. They talked it over, a little desperate now, with a pal they had picked up, John Cullen, who was a West Side punk with a petty police record from way back. They consulted also with the greaseball, dirty Uncle Murray Hirschl...
...year "foreman" who raked in a $25,000 bonus was actually Lincoln's chief metallurgist. He developed a new welding electrode that cut production costs 20%, discovered a new way to weld light and heavy armor plate that saves 20% on nickel and chrome...
...Detroit shuddered over reports that WPB was about to order all of its auto molds and dies (made of high-alloy nickel steel) turned into scrap for munitions. Worth infinitely more than their $60,000,000 valuation in terms of quick postwar conversion to car production, their destruction would ensure a post-war designer's field day (see p. 82), would turn current models into worthless antiques even more surely than wartime rationing of tires...
...Caledonia, a Free French island 700 miles east of Australia. It was a prize the Jap would have given a lot of men to take, for it lies athwart the lifeline from the U.S. to Down Under. It is also incredibly rich in minerals -No. 2 world producer of nickel, No. 5 of chromite. New Caledonia was worth anybody's taking. And the Jap, at least temporarily stalled in New Guinea, had been scooped...
...Axis, whose State and business are synonymous, always moved in a straight line. Its businessmen abroad had one job: to win the war. They grabbed war-essential raw materials in exchange for cameras or money, without figuring the price. They let everything else go, foregoing nickel-nickel peacetime profits for the great rewards...