Word: chrome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come in against Germany. "We have, therefore, with great regret, discontinued the process of arming Turkey because it looks probable that the Allies will be able to win the war in the Balkans and generally throughout Southeast Europe without Turkey being involved at all." By ending all shipments of chrome (for alloys) to Germany, Turkey had given valued help, for which her "honored President Inönü" was due thanks. But that was not enough to "procure for the Turks the strong position at the peace table which would attend their joining the Allies...
...high tableland, Sir Godfrey came to know more of his country than most Prime Ministers. Below him, on such trips, he saw a lush land which undulated like agricultural New Jersey, had the temperature of Southern California, produced grain, tobacco, oranges. It held gold, coal, chrome, asbestos. One-third of it was available to the right settlers...
...round in the devious battle of metals when Turkey suddenly agreed to cut off chrome shipments to Germany. This decision may help in the war on SKF: Sweden also gets its chrome in Turkey, shipped overland via Germany, and without it most bearings cannot be made...
Whirling Turk. Vacillating Turkey vacillated again. Turkish chrome is a vital element in ball bearings, many other steel products. Of late it has moved to Nazi-land in increasing tonnage. Last week Turkey's Foreign Minister Numan Menomencioglu hardly took time to read an Allied protest before calling in the correspondents for a bout of oil-slick doubletalk. Said he: "I had an interview today with the British and American Ambassadors (Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen and Laurence Steinhardt). They each gave me a note and we exchanged views in the most friendly spirit ... of collaboration which characterizes...
Brazil's strategic raw materials (mica, quartz crystal, industrial diamonds, manganese, chrome, tantalum) still have an insatiable market at excellent prices. Since foreign manufactures are hard to get, Brazilian factories have most of the domestic market to themselves. New industries have sprung up, old industries have expanded. A big gainer: the textile industry...