Word: tungsten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Days of Interdependence. "Those days were essentially simple ones. We did not feel intimately any relationship with Iran. We did not think about needing the tin and tungsten of Malaya, or the uranium of the Belgian Congo or the tin of Bolivia. We felt, rather, independent and alone . . . But now we realize the world is a great interdependent, complex entity . . . We have learned no part of us can prosper, no nation can really in the long fun be at peace and have security unless others enjoy the same...
...steadily increasing stream of tourists and sportsmen to northern Canada and Alaska. It has also opened up a new avenue for prospectors, giving them access to a new mineral-rich area scarcely tapped before. In the last five years, new deposits of silver, lead, gold, zinc, copper, asbestos, tungsten, molybdenum and manganese have been found in paying quantities near the highway...
...Yanqui inventor claimed credit for having 1) encouraged a 1950 petroleum law allowing foreign oil companies to resume prospecting in Bolivia, 2) arranged for the U.S. to buy Bolivia's strategic tungsten, 3) promoted resumption of payment on $145 million worth of defaulted Bolivian bonds. However others felt, Bolivians thought kindly of the ambassador. Before Florman left last week, they gave him the Order of the Andean Condor, their highest decoration...
There is also a serious shortage in alloy metals used in jet and other high-temperature engines. All the world's resources of such scarce alloys as tungsten and nickel will not fill U.S. needs when production hits its peak. Defense officials are pushing a search for substitutes. So far, little luck...
...World % of 1950 1950 % of Production Production total consumed Commodity (in tons) in U.S. in the U.S. Copper . . . . . . . . . 2,741,776 41% 50% Lead . . . . . . . . . . . 1,700,000 34 51 Zinc . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,010,048 45 50 Manganese . . . . . 3,375,000 5 50 Tungsten . . . . . . . 8,816 22 35 Cobalt . . . . . . . . . . 6,500 14 63 Nickel . . . . . . . . . . 170,000 ½ 50 Molybdenum . . . . 15,680 90 83 Wool . . . . . . . . . . . 4,000,000 (lbs.) 3 16 Cotton . . . . . . . . . . 31,400,000 (bales) 52 29 Natural Rubber...