Word: wolfram
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...return for exports to Spain, the U.S. receives substantial amounts of strategic materials, most important of which are wolfram (for tungsten) and cork...
...Luftwaffe's front-line role has been intensified beyond anything seen in previous German campaigns. Colonel General Wolfram von Richthofen (cousin of Germany's great World War I ace), who had the job of fitting the Luftwaffe to Mot pulk, devised his plan during the spring lull. Chief change: the number of dive-bombers on a given front has been tripled, and even quadrupled, to hurl the maximum weight from the air at Red troops, artillery and tanks...
Happiest of the lot was a handsome Viennese youth. Two years ago he began to correspond with then 14-year-old Lillian Wolfram, member of "The Pen Pals," a Glenside, Pa., high-school club which encourages boys & girls of different countries to write to each other. When Lillian's distant Pen Pal found himself getting into trouble with the Nazis, Father Wolfram undertook to get him out of the Reich and last week he arrived, a robust 18 to Lillian's sweet 16. "I am a Jew and just call me Harry," he smilingly told ship-newscameramen...
Meanwhile tea. anise, antimony, Perilla oil and galangal root, all imported from the Orient, rose in price. So did tungsten. Some 60% of this rare, whitish-grey metal comes from China. Technically known as wolfram, tungsten has a higher melting point than any other known metal (6,000° F.), is used in electric lamp filaments, radio tubes and high-speed tool steel...
...WOLFRAM HILL...