Word: tungsten
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...Optical glass made without silica (sand or quartz)-"almost as revolutionary," says Eastman Kodak Co., "as if someone had discovered how to make steel without iron." It is compounded of three rare metals: tantalum, tungsten, lanthanum...
Simon Patiño, the world's richest Bolivian, returned to Manhattan from Panama last week at a critical moment in U.S.-Bolivian relations. U.S. industry badly needs Bolivian tungsten, in which Patiño has an interest, and Bolivian tin ore, over half of which he controls. Last week the U.S. arranged to get the tungsten, but it is still not getting...
...over railroads. Then, under the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, the President could seize or purchase any U.S. ship, set up priorities under which ships now hauling fruit, silk and luxuries would begin moving the 19,000,000 tons of asbestos, bauxite, copper, cork, manganese, rubber, tin, sisal, nitrates, tungsten, vanadium and other strategic materials the U.S. needs for defense production. Thousands of tons of these materials are piled on foreign docks...
...last week had been through voluntary priorities (i.e., suppliers were asked but not ordered to follow Government preferences). To all defense materials except aluminum and machine tools, this halfway control (or none at all) still applied last week. But official pressure on the producers and fabricators of tungsten, zinc, stainless steel, nickel, copper, steadily increased, their control became less and less voluntary. Mandatory priorities were surely in the offing for a big segment of U. S. industry. OPM continued cheery about the situation, just as Mr. Stettinius had been two months before. The President, discussing the steel outlook, was cheerful...
...tradition, Whitney at first ventured only a gingerly toe into the unknown water of industrial research. When he found that he really had a free hand, he took on the G. E. experiment as a full-time job. Things began to hum. The basic experiments of William Coolidge on tungsten, of Irving Langmuir on gas-filled (instead of evacuated) bulbs led to modern electric lamps. The Coolidge and Langmuir experiments also produced high-power X-ray tubes, portable X-ray sets, high-capacity electronic tubes...