Word: wolfram
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...battlefields northeast of Canton, darkness persisted. The Japanese who had overrun the American air bases at Suichwan and Kanhsien pressed on to Namyung, source of steel-hardening wolfram. The great airfield at Sincheng, big enough for B-29s, was lost just nine days after an army of coolies had completed the heartbreaking task of pounding the runways smooth and straight...
...invasion eve Portugal finally came through, banned all shipments of tungsten ore (also called wolfram, necessary in hardening steel) to Germany. Just after invasion, Sweden agreed to choke off an important German supply source. Sweden's SKF cut total ball-bearing shipments to Germany by one fifth. The withheld fifth included practically all Swedish bearings for Nazi tanks and planes...
...last Franco's Government had kicked Germans and Japanese out of their listening posts in Tangier, across from Britain's busy Gibraltar, overlooking the Mediterranean gateway. The Axis consulates, Madrid said, had been "closed and sealed." Franco recently agreed to cut his country's shipment of wolfram (for steel alloys) to Germany. But he may ship as much as ever to Spain's little Iberian neighbor Portugal, which still supplies wolfram and other essential materials to Germany...
...Spanish embargo on exports of wolfram, the toughening agent for armor-piercing steel, which Spain has been liberally supplying to Germany...
German gold, including upward of $1 billion stolen from occupied countries, pays for espionage and sabotage, electrical equipment from Switzerland, fine steel from Sweden, cork from Portugal, rare metals such as Spam's wolfram (see p. 17). It could also buy a haven for Nazi bigwigs when & if they try to flee from defeated Germany. To stop such traffic, the Allies have done what they could to make Nazi gold not only worthless but an actual liability to those who deal in it. Announced the U.S. Treasury...