Word: platinum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 U. S. sympathies with Finland, giving some U. S. exporters a bad conscience (see p. 16). One manufacturer called the American-Russian...