Word: alumina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greece's ruling generals early last year offered another refinery concession to whichever bidder proposed to finance and build the most additional industry to go with it. At first Onassis beat out Niarchos with a proposal for a $400 million complex containing the refinery as well as an alumina works, a thermoelectric plant, shipyards and many projects to attract tourists. Altogether, that represented the largest industrial investment in Greek history...
...Queensland Alumina Ltd. operation, for instance, Australian ownership is less than 1%; the remainder is held by British, Canadian, U.S. and French companies in consortium. Mount Goldsworthy Mining Associates, which ships 4,000,000 tons of iron ore to Japan annually, is 8% Australian and 92% British and American. The only large project in which Australians hold a majority interest, Gorton was told, is the Mount Newman iron mines, where their share...
Back home in Australia, Holt was just as steady. He pushed industrial and natural-resource development programs that are now raising the country's gross national product by 9% a year; he also made Australia a major world supplier of iron ore, bauxite and alumina, as well as stepping up production of the copper, lead, zinc and coal that it has long produced. By the early 1970s, the government expects to be exporting $1 billion worth of minerals alone (v. $430 million last year...
Enter the radioisotope "cow." A simple device first developed at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, it takes advantage of the fact that many long-lived radioactive substances can produce short-lived radioactive offspring. The cow consists of an open-ended test tube with various layers of alumina and specially treated glass through which the parent substance is filtered. In the case of a parent such as molybdenum-99 (half-life: 2.8 days), technetium-99m (half-life: 6 hours) is produced, and it accumulates at the bottom of the tube (the cow's udder). The milked technetium can therefore be created...
Bratwurst & Bordelaise. The cries can be heard from South Australia, where migrants are hard at work on a new zinc-recovery plant at Port Pirie, to remote eastern Queensland, where they are helping build Gladstone's $117 million alumina refinery. New workers are most urgently needed in the far-out outback of Western Australia, where some of the world's richest iron-ore reserves have been discovered since 1960 and are being developed in company with a whole clutch of vast new enterprises, notably a $100 million steel complex, bauxite mines, $100 million worth of oil refineries...