Word: tungsten
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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...
...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...