Word: tungsten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China has few good roads, few hydro stations. A few tens of millions for cement plants, road-building machinery, turbines and power lines could animate this nascent economy to a degree out of all proportion to the investment. China can pay interest in tung oil, tungsten, ramie cloth, embroideries, cheap pottery and in service to U.S. tourists...
Said Chief of Staff General Antenor Ichazo: "The decree, in my opinion, will serve to revolutionize our economy." What this probably meant was that troops or mobilized civilians can be set to mining tin, tungsten, lead, copper, antimony, harvesting rubber, producing quinine, building roads. Labor for these enterprises has been scarce, and it has sometimes been both obstreperous and ill-treated. Mobilization presumably will not be a boon to Bolivian labor, but it may well increase production of Bolivian war material...
...return for oil sold to Spain, the U.S. gets substantial amounts of various strategic materials, including mercury, cork and wolfram (for tungsten...
...return for exports to Spain, the U.S. receives substantial amounts of strategic materials, most important of which are wolfram (for tungsten) and cork...
...poured out would have been only fluttering banknotes had it not been for the fundamental strength of U.S. industry. Not dollars, but tanks, guns, planes and, above all, ships and the means of transportation were what counted. And these were not made of money. They were made of steel, tungsten, aluminum. They were fashioned by manual and managerial skills which, whether planted at Detroit or Fisherman's Lake, Liberia-whether in civvies or in uniform-were still the American productive genius at work...