Word: chromium
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Hell's Bells. "K-42-B" is a new alloy of iron, nickel, cobalt, chromium, manganese, silicon, carbon and titanium which maintains extreme hardness at high temperatures. Two bell-shaped castings, one of ordinary steel, one of K-42-B, were heated red-hot in a furnace. When the red-hot steel bell was struck with a hammer, it was too soft to respond with anything but a thud. But the red-hot K-42-B bell, when struck, rang out clearly, like a church bell on a sparkling winter day. The Westinghouse people call this exhibit "Hell...
...midst of this bitterness, the British Government proudly announced it had agreed to buy all of Turkey's surplus of figs and grapes-in order also to acquire her chromium, indispensable in making munitions. The Turks, bowed by the earth's whims, could not help reflecting on the even greater foolishness of man. Some newspaperman in Ankara was reminded of the man in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 who, determined not to let nature's lack of reason upset man's good sense, shaved himself, carefully put studs in a clean shirt, dressed, packed...
...needs wheat. Great Britain, having cut Generalissimo Franco off from his German ore markets, will give him foreign exchange to feed his country from South America by buying Spanish copper, iron ore, mercury and lead. Yugoslavia now furnishes Germany with copper (from British-French-owned mines), Turkey might furnish chromium. The Allies will buy these countries' exports of these metals, also taking Yugoslavia's entire export prune crop, Turkey's entire surplus of figs, grapes and some tobacco, to sweeten the deals...