Word: tungsten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...melting point (3224° F.) was too high for the crude furnaces then in use. As better furnaces were developed, his technique was little used until about 1910 when U.S. scientists, notably General Electric's William David Coolidge, revived it as the only practical way of making ductile tungsten (melting point 6100° F.) from which thin wires for light bulb filaments could then be drawn through holes in diamonds...
Wrote Hothead Belmonte: "We have received all maps showing the most favorable sites for landing. These show me once more that you [Wendler] and your staff are doing excellent preparation for the realization of our plan in favor of Bolivia. . . . We must destroy the tungsten contract with the U.S. . . . Bolivia does not need American loans. With the victory of the German Reich, Bolivia will need only work and discipline. ... I will fly to Brazil upon your advice and take Cochabamba and Santa Cruz, where I have good friends...
...needs), tin (20% of peacetime needs), aluminum, lead, mercury and phosphorus (almost none), rubber (none). Of such important alloy metals as antimony, chrome, nickel, manganese and tungsten, Japan produces scarcely...
Elected President in March, General Peñaranda, no politician, has done his best to steer his brawling country toward democracy and an amiable relationship with the U.S. His biggest coup to date was to negotiate a contract with the U.S. for Bolivia's full output of tungsten, despite the fact that Japan at first made a higher...
Under industry-wide mandatory priorities, which means that no supplier can sell them except to customers who have priority rating, were 14 materials: aluminum, borax (and boric acid),* copper, cork, ferro-tungsten, machine tools, magnesium, nickel, nickel-steel, polyvinyl chloride (for plastics), rubber, synthetic rubber, tungsten high-speed steel, zinc. Pig iron was soon to be added. So were some heavy chemicals-sulfuric acid and possibly ammonia...