Word: tungsten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conquers Burma must win the rivers and their valleys. With them go Burma's chief port, Rangoon; the oil of Yanangyaung, on the Irrawaddy ; the ruby and silver mines; 85% of all the precious tungsten in the British Empire; Burma's rubber plantations; the inland cities-Pegu, Prome, Mandalay-where Burmese kings once ruled their separate realms, and the British were never quite at home...
...Carboloy's was cemented tungsten carbide, an exceedingly hard metal composition important for cutting tools. Remington Arms' was tetracene, an ammunition primer, which, the Justice Department contended, the ever-logical Germans licensed Remington to sell to the British "for shooting quail and pheasants but not for shooting Germans...
Quarter-sphere defense may be feasible from a military viewpoint. Economically, Professor Spykman believes that it is hopeless "without the tin and the tungsten of Bolivia, the copper of Chile and the tungsten, wool and tanning products of the Argentine, our war industries would be seriously crippled even if we could produce in northern Brazil the materials -which now come from the tropical zones of Asia and Africa...
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