Word: chromium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...launch. Last week industry leader Gillette unveiled the result of a ten-year development project. Called Sensor, the new razor has twin spring-mounted blades that individually contour to the vagaries of the user's skin. The high-tech face scraper has 22 patents, 13 moving parts, platinum-hardened chromium blades, and is welded with lasers...
...started, even Hitler was surprised at the suddenness of his success. Yet many of his seemingly invincible tanks were very lightly armored and carried no offensive weapons heavier than machine guns. More important, the German war machine depended heavily on imported supplies: Swedish steel, Rumanian oil, South African chromium. The blitzkrieg was in part a response to the fact that a Germany blockaded by Britain did not then have the resources to wage war for more than six months. In addition to his natural gall and guile, though, Hitler had one attribute indispensable to a commander: luck...
...rough textiles, canned foods, glassware and machine parts. The economy is stagnant, in part because of an almost pathological aversion to debt. The constitution outlaws acceptance of foreign credits, thus making Albania's outside trade dependent on barter deals or the cash sale of its exports, which include chromium, oil and agricultural products. The economy is also crippled by a disintegrating industrial base. Chinese- and Soviet-built steel mills, power plants and tractor factories, between eight and 25 years old, are falling apart...
...Korea, they roll off the assembly lines with daunting speed. Cars, cars and still more cars. Suddenly they are being turned out by more manufacturers in more locations than at any time in decades. In myriad shapes, sizes and colors, price tagged for all pocketbooks, in a glittering, growing, chromium-plated cavalcade seemingly without end, they continue to cruise into U.S. showrooms and, with slightly less frequency, back onto the streets of America. Under the impact of that four-wheeled flood, the $230 billion-a-year U.S. auto marketplace is being pushed, pulled and pummeled into new forms and shapes...
...leverage South Africa can apply in its trade with the U.S. is its near monopoly of some strategic metals, which worries the Pentagon. If Pretoria decided to retaliate against U.S. sanctions, it could refuse to sell these materials. South Africa holds 84% of the world's known reserves of chromium, which is essential in the production of stainless steel and superalloys used in the defense, aerospace, chemical and power-generation industries. Private stocks of chromium in the U.S., which does not mine the ore, would last only a few months. South Africa has 81% of the world's platinum...