Word: chromium
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...deputies. Yet Speer concedes that his efforts only delayed the inevitable outcome. Even with the "extreme concentration of all our resources," he says, Germany could not have had an atomic bomb before 1947. The Nazi war effort would have crumbled before then, since the last reserves of chromium-vital to the making of stainless steel-would have been gone...
...substance was, no one knows. NASA scientists point out that many plants, such as ferns and liverworts, have actually grown better in lunar soil than in terrestrial soil. One possible explanation has been offered by microbiologists at Ames Research Center in California. They suggest that the low concentrations of chromium and other trace metals in moon soil may be nutritious for some plants but deadly for the bacteria...
...Union celebrated with a birthday party to end all birthday parties. Factory workers and farm hands promised to double, triple and quadruple their production norms as a present to their leader. The Italian Communists sent an Alfa Romeo sports car to the Kremlin, while the French party dispatched a chromium-plated racing bicycle. For the next eight months, Pravda's pages had room for little except birthday greetings...