Word: zinc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sain Shanda. At the town of Sukhe Bator is a paper mill and a factory that turns out prefabricated houses. The Russian metallurgical plant at Darkhan produces 300,000 tons of steel per year. Soviet geologists claim to have discovered important deposits of coal, copper, manganese fluoride, tin, zinc and wolfram...
Exports are in deep trouble. Prices of Latin America's major commodities-mostly agricultural products (cacao, sugar, coffee), minerals (lead, zinc) and petroleum-are down and slipping lower. Between 1957 and 1960, the overall price decline amounted to 11.5%, effectively canceling out a 13.5% increase in the volume of goods sold abroad. "This situation," said the report, "is unparalleled in other underdeveloped areas of the world...
...worth of support over the next ten years. Reversing a position of long standing, the U.S. has also agreed to take part in a scheme designed to support coffee prices. It may now be asked to do the same for such other Latin American commodities as cacao, lead and zinc...
Named for a rock outcrop in the New South Wales back country where it began mining a treasure-trove of silver, lead and zinc in 1885, B.H.P. turned to steelmaking in the early 1900s. Led by the late Essington Lewis, a single-minded empire builder who made himself Australia's "Mr. Steel," the company doggedly pursued efficiency, threw up new plants, cornered rich ore and coal reserves, and by 1935 had gobbled up its only major competitor. But it was the pell-mell postwar growth of heavy industry and construction in Australia that gave B.H.P. its biggest forward push...
...sprang into position. In a series of maneuvers, Mariner's ten tiny nitrogen jets swiveled the spacecraft until its long axis pointed at the sun. So positioned, the solar panels could absorb the sun's energy, power the spacecraft's electrical system without draining its silver-zinc battery...