Word: tungsten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since, its engineers have poked into the earth's crust in search of deposits of vanadium, tungsten, chromium and other rare metals. In Peru it controls the world's largest vanadium deposits, and a leaching plant nearly three miles above sea level...
...Gold and Tungsten. Sinkiang is mostly a vast grazing land, cut up by high mountains, in which are valuable gold and tungsten deposits and narrow, fertile valleys. Its capital, Tihwa (Urumchi), is the crossroads of the age-old silk caravan routes between China and the West...
...metallurgists' detective work proved that in some metals the Germans have been less badly off than supposed. They have had enough tungsten, for example, to shoot it away in armor-piercing projectiles...
...sudden flood of Army orders also washed all the complacency out of other metal markets. Tin, zinc and lead were all back on the critical-shortage list (along with lesser items like antimony, tungsten and cadmium). Metal men who had talked of plans to revive a little bit of production for civilian uses tossed many plans for the 4,200 spot reconversion programs out the window when WPB cut out their steel and copper allotments for the second quarter. The grim poverty of metals for war's uses had even shortened the supply for essential civilian production. Not even...
...Government of President Gualberto Villarroel had long since done all that the State Department had requested. It had rounded up and deported some 80 high-placed Axis agents, had sent German and Jap diplomats home, had purged the Government of Axis sympathizers, had upped the export of tin and tungsten...