Word: zinc
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...Sorel, Quebec the freighter Königsberg, cargoing zinc oxide to Canadian consignees, received instructions, as did many other German vessels, to full-steam home before she could unload. Defying Canadian Revenue Department orders to stay put until she had done so, she cut her mooring lines, nosed off without warning. But, some 100 miles down the St. Lawrence, a police boat overhauled her. Its officers, acting for consignees who claimed they had paid up but had not received their oxide, held the Konigsberg's skipper on larceny charges...
...Tobacco, American Telephone, Consolidated Edison, Public Service of New Jersey, Eastman Kodak, International Harvester, Procter & Gamble, Sherwin-Williams, Union Tank Car, American Chicle, Beech-Nut, General Foods, J. C. Penney, Sears-Roebuck, Commercial Credit, Commercial Investment Trust, Household Finance, International Business Machines, Allied Chemical, New Jersey Zinc, Homestake, Phelps Dodge, Bristol-Myers...
...President signed the Army's final supply bill, $223,398,047 mostly for new planes. To this sum it was expected he would ask Congress to add $25,000,000. It would be used to purchase and store strategic minerals such as zinc, chromium, manganese and tin and to buy coffee, rubber and other tropical products under a $100,000,000 four-year program which would bring total expenditures for national defense close to $2,000,000.000. No opposition was expected, as there has been no opposition to any of the record-breaking peacetime appropriations for national defense...
Cadmium, an element of the zinc family, destroys red blood corpuscles when introduced into the bloodstream (as it might be if rubbed on lips or licked). Selenium, a dark red powder belonging to the sulfur family and found in German, Japanese, Mexican and other soils, is chiefly used for photoelectric cells and ruby-glass danger signals...
...democracies, who have always officially believed the Aggrandizer's words rather than his acts, it came as a great sur prise when, on March 12, 1938, his troops marched into Austria-area: 32,369 square miles; population: 6,760,233; resources: lignite, anthracite, iron, copper, lead, zinc, lumber, small manufactures, agriculture, gold reserve of $46,000,000. After the Austrian grab, the Mehrer said...