Word: chromium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweaty research has gone into adapting steel to cartridges for the hungry gullets of tommy guns, Brownings, Chicago pianos and automatic cannon. The researchers had plenty of troubles. One of the worst was the shortage of such alloying elements as nickel, chromium, tung sten and molybdenum. But eventually they developed a noncritical steel which would expand on firing to seal the breech, then contract quickly enough to permit ejection of the empty case...
...slogan was Lucky's way of saying that there would no longer be enough chrome green ( a derivative of bichromate) to make green ink. But WPB, which lifted restrictions on chromium last September after originally cutting its commercial use, denied that there was any special war purpose for chrome green. There were rumors that Lucky Strike, which sold more cigarets (59,500,000,000) last year than any other U.S. tobacco company, wanted a white package to compete with Chesterfield for the female trade. There was no question, at any rate, but that white packages were cheaper to produce...
...substitute for chromium and nickel plating, indium takes a high polish, is resistant to discoloration. Deposited electrolytically, it diffuses with underlying non-ferrous metals to form a protective coating...
This was as plain a warning as the President of a neutral country could give that Turkey would be neither a diplomatic nor a military pushover for the Axis. Turkey was preparing northern defenses. Vital Turkish chromium was being shipped to the United Nations while Hitler paid Turkey in locomotives and rolling stock for the 90,000 tons he hoped to get in 1943.* U.S. Lend-Lease shipments to Turkey were increasing. Soviet Ambassador Sergei Vinogradov was expected soon to return to Ankara. The signs were as clear as Inönü's words...
...Experts estimated that Germany would have to have 150,000 tons of high-grade Turkish chromium in 1943 or the quality of German armor plate would depreciate...