Word: molybdenum
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With test tube and spectroscope, the metallurgists reconstructed a revealing picture of arms-making inside the Axis countries. The Germans started the war with meager supplies of copper, nickel, molybdenum, vanadium, chromium, manganese-all considered vital for war. They showed great skill and ingenuity in finding workable substitutes. As early as 1934 they began to make shell cases of copper-coated steel instead of brass (which uses more copper). As war ate up their copper stocks, they shifted to electrolytic copper plating (a thinner coat), finally to a rust-retarding lacquer coating containing no copper...
Toughest Schriber job was painting the buildings at the Climax (Colo.) molybdenum mines in the winter of 1939-40. Many of Nate's painting crew could not stand the 12,000-ft. altitude and 35-below-zero temperature. Once, on treacherous Loveland Pass, Nate's car was blown off the road, and only a luckily placed tree saved him from a plunge into a chasm...
...some finished products, and make up the balance by shipping vast stores of raw materials that the U.S. badly needs. Thus the U.S., which will scrape the bottom of its manganese and tungsten deposits in three years, will be able to stockpile these from Russia, along with high-grade molybdenum, chrome, mercury, zinc...
Leadville is on the up, in any case. Thirteen miles away, at Climax, the world's largest molybdenum mine is booming; Leadville's streets are jampacked. Reopening of the old flooded zinc mines on Leadville's famed four rich ore hills may keep Leadville's up-&-down prosperity curve steadily climbing...
...Chinese also look for great coal resources. Copper, critically deficient in the interior, is in Sinkiang; so are iron, molybdenum and other ores. Sinkiang's succulent fruits and melons are a byword in Asia. Its superb cotton, its magnificent horses are all of matchless quality. But peasant immigration must be limited to water resources-three or four millions is probably the maximum total of agricultural pioneers...