Word: tungsten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generally quiet. Occasional outbursts scorch and blacken the countryside, but they always have a limited objective. In some sectors remote from the heart of Free China, the Japs and the Chinese even, fraternize at arms' distance. Chinese and Japanese officers sometimes share fabulous profits from the smuggling of tungsten, cotton, wool, tin, tung oil, U.S. bank notes. Chinese divisions in the war-quiet areas operate their own factories and farms, direct their energies toward a stable military economy. The Japanese rarely molest them. These activities cannot be judged by Western standards; they are the natural consequences of a long...
...payment, Russia will fork out cash and some finished products, and make up the balance by shipping vast stores of raw materials that the U.S. badly needs. Thus the U.S., which will scrape the bottom of its manganese and tungsten deposits in three years, will be able to stockpile these from Russia, along with high-grade molybdenum, chrome, mercury, zinc...
...which was produced in quantity in the U.S. before the war. Already the nation can produce most of its own chromite and tantalum (crucially important in a secret war job). The hunters have also discovered 3,000,000 tons of high-grade bauxite (for aluminum), new sources of tungsten, magnesium, nickel, mercury, many another metal. Not all these ores are of high enough quality to be commercially practical in peacetime, but they are good enough to assure the U.S. of an ample war supply...
While antiFascists howled, the U.S. Government has for months allowed appeasing dribbles of oil, textiles, essential drugs (plus a few luxury goods for down-at-the-heel big shots) to be shipped to Spain. In return Spain has shipped to the U.S. tons of her own strategic produce -mercury, tungsten, cork and hides...
...Hooked up to this same hand generator is another new signaling device designed to guide rescuers at night: a tiny searchlight, the size of a walnut, whose beam can be seen 65 miles away. Much more powerful than an ordinary flashlight, it has a single tungsten filament, produces a 1,500-candlepower beam, is worn on the head like a miner's lamp...