Word: molybdenum
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Badly needing U.S. heavy machinery, machine tools, molybdenum, steel sheets, etc. Russia has been regarded as a good customer by U.S. exporters, has paid them $566,000,000 (mostly cash on the line) in the last ten years. Henry Ford alone has made $20,000,000 of sales to Russia, including the dies and stampings of his old Model A. Russia sells less to the U. S. (furs, manganese, platinum), has a large "unfavorable" trade balance, readily cancelable by gold, of which she mined around $200,000,000 worth last year. But by last week Russian business was shocking...
...tons from the week prior), bringing totals for all flags to 47 ships, 196.925 tons. > Great Britain's Ministry of Information last week claimed that their seizures of war materials destined for Germany totaled 186.000 tons. Particularly pleased were they to have intercepted 400 tons of molybdenum concentrates and 30,000 tons of manganese, two essentials of cannon steel. Most seizures were made at control ports in the British Isles. Less than a dozen ships had been searched at Gibraltar and Haifa, with only minor seizures (3,000 tons of petroleum, 6,000 of manganese...
...that out of the fifty-five metallic elements, only six have melting points beyond the reach of the Harvard apparatus in its present state. These are carbon, melting at 6300 degrees Fahrenheit; tungsten, at 6066 degrees; rhenium, at 5400 degrees; tantalum, at 5130 degrees; osium, at 4860 degrees and molybdenum at 4716 degrees...
...Molybdenum, first isolated in 1782, de rives its name from the Greek word meaning lead-like, is known in trade as "moly." Little use was found for the metal until the end of the 19th Century, when it was tried as an alloy for tool steels. Sulphur in the moly compounds then available un did what good the metal contributed, with the result that tungsten became the stand ard steel hardener. Not until the War, when it was employed in guns, motors, light armor plate, did moly impress steel makers...
...baby. Sired in 1917, by American Metal, the company took over huge ore deposits near Climax, Colo., a little railroad station perched atop the Fremont Pass at an altitude of 11,000 ft. Gold diggers had discovered the deposits, thought them graphite. Even after they proved to be molybdenum no one was particularly excited because the ore was low-grade (8 lb. to the ton) and Scandinavia and Australia, with small reserves higher in metal content, could more than supply what market there...