Word: feldspar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Doors. International Minerals, which once concentrated on phosphates for fertilizer and cattle feed, now makes 20 different products that have boosted sales from under $12 million to $88 million in 1953, with profits of $7,000,000 (up 5,500%). International Minerals makes bonding clays for foundry use, recovers feldspar which is useful to ceramics makers, extracts bentonite (another specialized clay) for use in oil-well drilling. Says Ware: "Research is our lifeblood. With it, you open one door and find four more. How far you go depends only on your resources and your native ingenuity...
...directly related to the industrial areas on the map) are the South's natural-resource riches: iron ore and coal in Alabama and Kentucky, natural gas and oil along the Gulf Coast, Georgia's and South Carolina's clay, North Carolina's mica and feldspar, Louisiana's sulphur, bauxite in Arkansas, Georgia and Alabama, phosphate rock in Tennessee and Florida, commercial forest land in all eleven states...