Nickel Quotes

Most people have no idea of how large a land mass the Arctic Circle is. Most of the Arctic has not even been explored or exploited yet. When it does, these percentages will doubtless increase.

This coin was by this law to be a silver coin of a certain weight. However, in the Civil War, the Union was short of silver and started making the coins in an alloy of copper and nickel and were then called “nickels” to differentiate them from the half-dimes. We never went back to silver nickels and they remain with us today.

This was one of the first Canadian political concerns about a multinational corporation and its patriotism and duty to its home nation and region. International Nickel Company was selling Canadian Copper and Nickel to Germany, Italy and other enemies. This is an old story. In America, New England merchants sold beef and other produce to the British during the War of 1812. While America was arming England at the beginning of WWII, IBM was supplying and servicing strategic data processing equipment through its European subsidiaries. A few American companies sold strategic materials to Iraq when they were working on weapons of mass destruction at the beginning of the 21st century. However, International Nickel was one of the first real Multinational Companies which fundamentally had no loyalty to any nation.