Word: vanadium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hunk of metal to Albert Law, editor of the Dalhart Texan. Law, in the belief that it might be a meteorite, sent it to the University of New Mexico to have it analyzed by Astronomer Lincoln La Paz, and his research associate, Mineralogist Carl W. Beck. With a vanadium steel chisel and a four-pound jackhammer, La Paz succeeded in breaking off a piece the size of a pea. Beck found that the substance had a density of 18.63 (density of lead: 11.34). A commercial chemist in Albuquerque confirmed their suspicions that the chunk was solid metallic uranium, which does...
...totted up the results of the conference last week, it found that it had given more than it had taken. The U.S. granted tariff cuts up to 50% on $419 million of imports (as of 1949). The cuts apply to such strategic metals as lead, chrome and vanadium, and such luxuries as orchids and champagne. In return, the U.S. got tariff reductions from other nations on $1,057,000,000 of exports. Included in this list: typewriters, motor vehicles, tires, electric motors and dynamos. But the U.S. tariff cuts were given "across the board" (i.e., concessions to one country were...
...moved in as president of Vanadium Corp. of America, reorganized its mining operations, and helped supply the uranium ore for the first atom bomb experiments. In World War II, Bransome went back to Washington as an industry representative in labor troubles, before the War Labor Board...
...Vanadium. 5. Uranium...
...impounded reservation made a rich haul. Today it includes shale oil beds, vanadium and uranium deposits, 500,000 acres of coalfields, and a big chunk of the Wilson Creek and Rangely oilfields (Rangely's 1949 production: 20 million barrels). The Government promised to pay for all of the Utes' lands, but never got around...