Word: chromes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this war for years. She has stocks on hand, said the Ministry, for an all-out war for at least twelve months. Japan can probably mobilize another million men for action before it cuts seriously into her industrial production. Japan has abundant stockpiles of such key materials as chrome, tungsten, phosphates, copper, zinc. Most of these materials were purchased from the U.S. and Allied countries during the past few years. Said one U.S. soldier in the Philippines when a bomb dropped near him: "We sold 'em this stuff and now they're giving it back...
...Chrome. One-third of U.S. consumption of 800,000 tons a year comes from the Philippines and New Caledonia. Present stockpile is 400,000 tons. Smaller quantities come from Cuba and Africa, but not enough...
Fortnight ago Turkey refused to sell Germany any of the Turkish chrome the Nazis want for airplane engines (TIME, Oct. 13). Last week Germany's fat, blasty negotiator, Dr. Karl Clodius, made as threatening faces as his lardy jowls would permit. But Turkey's negotiator, Numan Menemencioglu, constantly in touch with British Ambassador Sir Hughe M. Knatchbull-Hugessen and U.S. Ambassador John van Antwerp MacMurray, quietly repeated that Germany could have no chrome until Turkey's pledge to sell its whole output to Britain expired in January...
...Clodius, breathing heavily after six weeks of futile grimacing, chrome in the far-off year 1943 sounded better than no chrome at all. He tried to preserve his visage by bargaining for 150,000 tons in 1943-44. M. Menemencioglu coolly traded him down to 90,000 tons, with the added stipulation that Germany should sell Turkey ?T18,000,000 ($13,500,000) worth of war materials, from rifles to tanks, before an ounce of chrome was delivered...
...rumored that wily German Ambassador Franz von Papen (see p. 102) had tried to save his own foxy countenance by requesting a token shipment of 2,500 tons of chrome at once. But this contract, with its never-never quality, was the best that Germany could...