Word: zinc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corronizing," a new metal-plating process, can cut by 50 to 90% the amounts of zinc and tin now used to galvanize and tin-plate iron and steel. With ordinary electroplating equipment, a thin film of nickel is first deposited on the metal, then a layer of zinc or tin much thinner than usual is added. Baking then fuses the two coats into an alloy whose exceptional resistance to rust and corrosion has already been demonstrated on wire screens, and on Sears, Roebuck's insecticide spray tanks. Even though small amounts of nickel are required, the net result...
...years. She has stocks on hand, said the Ministry, for an all-out war for at least twelve months. Japan can probably mobilize another million men for action before it cuts seriously into her industrial production. Japan has abundant stockpiles of such key materials as chrome, tungsten, phosphates, copper, zinc. Most of these materials were purchased from the U.S. and Allied countries during the past few years. Said one U.S. soldier in the Philippines when a bomb dropped near him: "We sold 'em this stuff and now they're giving it back...
...Zinc. Japan produces about 40% of her consumption...
...Zinc White: Supply reduced by 7 to 20% of normal production; prices...
Ever since Henderson permitted zinc prices to rise 14% to 8.25? a lb. (TIME, Oct. 20), leadmen confidently awaited a comparable boost for them. They thought Leon would recognize that lead and zinc are usually mined together, usually move together pricewise. But he didn...