Word: zinc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be shipped to Japan. In Sumatra, Japanese oilmen promised to invest $15 million to carry on offshore oilfield drilling; Indonesia will keep 39% of the oil produced, and the Japanese will get the rest. And the Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co. paid $8,000,000 for copper and zinc mines in Peru; next year the mines will begin shipping concentrated ores to Japan...
...entire Japanese economy is at stake in such far-flung horse trades. Despite its industrial strength, Japan is virtually barren of natural resources, depends on imports for 99% of its petroleum, 96% of its iron ore, 85% of its copper and 75% of its zinc. Last year the island nation imported 205 million tons of raw materials, 20% more than in 1964, at a cost of $3.2 billion...
After Guillaume's death in 1934, Domenica married Jean Walter, whose vast Zellidja lead and zinc mines in Morocco made him one of France's wealthiest men. He and Domenica fleshed out the collection with some record-breaking purchases that would have met Guillaume's standards...
...feed Brazil's exploding population; what was once useless scrub in the central state of Goiás is now pasture land for 4,000,000 head of cattle. And prospectors fanning out from the road have found a vast mineral potential, with deposits of nickel, tin, lead, zinc, copper, gold, diamonds and quartz...
...Force investigators are now ready to test zinc-propelled healing in severe burn cases, because burn patients are already known to develop a major zinc deficit after injury. If the efficacy of the method is fully confirmed, the investigators expect it may be invaluable for combat wounds, which, with today's weapons, tend to be larger than ever. The suggested explanation, said Major Pories, is simple. A tiny amount of zinc is present in enzymes, which are essential to the original growth of mammalian organisms and also, it seems, to the regrowth of destroyed or damaged tissues...