Word: tungsten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also indicted (along with its subsidiary Carboloy Co.) for a 1928 patent deal with Krupp on tungsten car bide alloys. President L. Gerald Firth of Firth-Sterling Steel Co., one of Carboloy Co.'s three licensees, applauded...
...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 cost...
...engines. Commissioner Stettinius cheerily reviewed his studies of raw materials which the U. S. would need and might not have in wartime, said: "The situation . . . is more hopeful than we anticipated six weeks ago. . . ." For an example of heartening speed, he told of hearing about a stock of tungsten and antimony "near Indo-China." The supply was bought, loaded on a U. S. ship, on the way to the U. S. within 48 hours...
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...
Against Beard's deprecation of U. S. foreign trade, Buell quotes figures to show that imports (rubber, tungsten, etc.) from Asia and the East Indies are "essential" to U. S. economy, that exports of U. S. mass production industries (e.g., typewriters) account for a high percentage of important U. S. production. With respect to foreign investments, he points out that in 1938 they brought a high average of interest...