Word: chromes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...zinc, and magnesium. That was all. Two-thirds of her iron ore and 85% of her copper had to be imported. To feed her highly-developed smelters at Leipzig, Breslau, etc., she had little or no bauxite (aluminum ore), antimony, tin or the critical ferro-alloy metals: molybdenum, tungsten, chrome, nickel. The map shows how conquest enlarged her resources. Fine lines show her post-Versailles boundaries, the heavy line her holdings at the end of year I of World...
...great shakes as a world producer or a world market, the Mediterranean bulked far larger as a world highway. Through Suez and Gibraltar poured a grimy stream of freighters carrying oil from Iraq, Iran and Russia's Batum on the Black Sea, mercury from Italy and Spain, chrome from Turkey, manganese from the U. S. S. R. Of these the U. S. had to worry only about mercury and manganese. But mercury is still available from Spain, and manganese is plentiful in Cuba, India, Brazil, the African Gold Coast, even (in low-grade form...