Word: tungsten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that if the U. S. should find itself at war with Japan in the Far East it will be cut off from the Indies, and other Eastern areas, which produce 90% of the world's rubber, 50% of the world's tin, tungsten (21%), manganese (27%), quinine (95%), Manila fibre...
...Downing Street one day last week to reiterate the Soviet Union's first concrete complaint against British war behavior. On Jan. 13, British warships off Formosa stopped the Red freighter Selenga, en route from a Chinese port to Vladivostok with a cargo of tin, antimony and wolframite (tungsten ore). They took the Selenga clear to Hong Kong for examination, on the suspicion that the metals were destined for Germany via the Trans-Siberian Railway. Last week the Selenga and her cargo were still detained at Hong Kong, when in came the Vladimir Mayakovsky, also under British escort...
...tiny and each atom sends out a wave only once in 1,000 to 100,000,000 years. But there are so many billions of atoms in a small pinch of substance that Dr. Rabi gets a continuous program on his detector, which is a ribbon of incandescent tungsten in an oscillating electromagnetic field. He expects to use atomic radio to learn more about the nuclear structure and energy mechanism of atoms. The physicists admired his discovery and Dr. Rabi got a $1,000 prize for the A. A. A. S. convention's best paper...