Word: tantalum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gadgets have helped: new machines for anesthetics; easily tilted operating tables; glareless, heatless, shadowless operating-room lights; new sutures, like those made of the rare metal tantalum, to replace cat gut* for certain operations...
...well-trained troops, Smith probably had the edge, for his most effective fighters included a case-hardened cavalry division and contingents of marines. Smith's opposite number in the rebel camp was tantalum-tough, moonfaced ex-President Rafael Franco, leader of the vaguely leftist Febrerista Party...
...swimming pool at the famed old Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, paralyzed men exercise their flaccid limbs. In the wards, men with legs scarred by vein surgery and men with tantalum plates in their skulls read books on diesel engines, cattle raising, soil conservation. (They cheerfully show their wounds to anyone willing to look.) In the recreation hall, some of the wounded watch the Army training film Baptism of Fire and hear the day's war news. A man in the occupational-therapy department is absorbed in making a set of four-leaf-clover buttons of clay...
Ever since World War II began, the warring nations have been looking for an adequate source of tantalum. It is a superhard, noncorrosive metal that ranks just under gold, platinum and silver in value and is used in radar, machine tools, surgery...
Brazil's strategic raw materials (mica, quartz crystal, industrial diamonds, manganese, chrome, tantalum) still have an insatiable market at excellent prices. Since foreign manufactures are hard to get, Brazilian factories have most of the domestic market to themselves. New industries have sprung up, old industries have expanded. A big gainer: the textile industry...