Word: platinum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frontiers of German Poland and Rumania. In the rich Ukraine the city of Kiev was peppered with mock bombs. The Red Navy completed summer maneuvers off the brand-new Soviet Republics of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, which now constitute the Baltic Military District. A new diamond-encrusted gold-&-platinum star was created for the five Red Army Marshals: Voroshilov, Timoshenko, Kulik, Budenny and Sheposhnikov. Large Russian forces massed quietly along the frontier of Finland, whose well-loved old peasant President Kyösti Kallio lay dying...
...since then Alaska has ex ported more than $1,250,000,000 in fish, furs, gold and other metals. And Alaska's 70,000 inhabitants (half of them Indians) have not yet scratched its natural resources, which include water power, lumber, oil, iron, zinc, copper, chromite, antimony, nickel, platinum, tungsten. But Johnson also got his money's worth in natural defense, for today Alaska is one of the U. S.'s two most important outposts against invasion from the Pacific (the other: Hawaii). Today Army and Navy are rushing to spend more than six times what Alaska...
Last winter platinum-haired Maestro Stokowski announced that he would form an orchestra of young Americans that could stand up to the best symphonies in the country. Musicasters thought he was just huffing & puffing. But Stokowski meant it, every syllable...
With a habitual huge carry-over of wheat (this year, 288,000,000 bu.) the U. S. needs no wheat from Argentina. It needs no corn or meat grown in the fat lands of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and eastern Bolivia. Of South American metals, only tin, manganese, bauxite, platinum and vanadium could be bought by the U. S. without competition with its own economy. The U. S. could use rubber from Brazil, but Brazil's present output of rubber is negligible and it takes at least seven years for a rubber plantation to become commercially workable. Thus, several years...
Basic Materials: Aluminum, antimony, asbestos, chromium, cotton linters, flax, graphite, hides, industrial diamonds, manganese, magnesium, manila fibre, mercury, mica, molybdenum, optical glass, platinum group metals, quartz crystals, quinine, rubber, silk, tin, toluol (coal-tar derivative used in TNT), tungsten, vanadium, wool...