Word: tungsten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York s Wah Chang (Great Development) Corp., "wanted to make Chinese activity in the U.S. mean more than the laundry and the restaurant." Li Sr., a British-educated mining engineer who died early this year, built Wah Chang (1960 sales: $35 million) into a major free-world producer of tungsten. Now K. C. Jr., a Swarthmore graduate who flew with General Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force, is out to enhance his company's reputation by intensifying research into atom-age metals. The new emphasis has already produced an important breakthrough in fabrication of superconductors i.e., metals which when...
...five times the so-called illegal gains. In short, the junta planned to strip the country's richest men of their wealth and reinvest it in public projects. Military officers have replaced the civilian heads of all the state corporations that control South Korea's coal and tungsten mines, produce its power, run the tobacco and salt monopoly. All over Seoul, merchants and restaurateurs nervously cut prices for fear of being accused of profiteering...
...Alaska's rich resources, it rummages heaven and earth. The topflight Geophysical Institute has probably done more aurora borealis research than any other group in the world. The mining school, with its own mine under the campus, has taught 18,000 Alaskans how to find gold, uranium and tungsten. In the works: a new marine-science institute for studying a coastline longer than that of the rest of the continental...
Electron Cutter. United Aircraft Corp.'s Hamilton Standard Division (propellers) will put on the market a machine, developed by West Germany's Carl Zeiss Foundation, that uses electron beams to weld, mill and drill hair-fine holes in the hardest known materials, e.g., quartz, tungsten, zirconium. An electron gun fires beams that boost the temperature on the surface of the material up to 11,000° F. ; it can cut 100 holes in a straight line across a pinhead, drill a sapphire watch bearing in six seconds, weld a tough nu clear reactor core. Lease price: about...