Word: vanadium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years the Vanadium Corp. of America jogged along in its own quiet way, all but unknown to the public. Last week it was blasted into the limelight. Vanadium is one of the chief suppliers to the atomic bomb project...
...Vanadium Corp. was established...
Ever since, its engineers have poked into the earth's crust in search of deposits of vanadium, tungsten, chromium and other rare metals. In Peru it controls the world's largest vanadium deposits, and a leaching plant nearly three miles above sea level...
...company got a new president, stocky, pink-jowled Edwin Dagobert Bransome. No engineer, Bransome pulled the company out of a financial hole. It promptly earned a profit of $152,000, Vanadium's first in six years. By 1944 Bransome was able to report to his stock holders that Vanadium had cleared $459,00 on gross sales of $16 million...
With test tube and spectroscope, the metallurgists reconstructed a revealing picture of arms-making inside the Axis countries. The Germans started the war with meager supplies of copper, nickel, molybdenum, vanadium, chromium, manganese-all considered vital for war. They showed great skill and ingenuity in finding workable substitutes. As early as 1934 they began to make shell cases of copper-coated steel instead of brass (which uses more copper). As war ate up their copper stocks, they shifted to electrolytic copper plating (a thinner coat), finally to a rust-retarding lacquer coating containing no copper...