Word: tungsten
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...sudden flood of Army orders also washed all the complacency out of other metal markets. Tin, zinc and lead were all back on the critical-shortage list (along with lesser items like antimony, tungsten and cadmium). Metal men who had talked of plans to revive a little bit of production for civilian uses tossed many plans for the 4,200 spot reconversion programs out the window when WPB cut out their steel and copper allotments for the second quarter. The grim poverty of metals for war's uses had even shortened the supply for essential civilian production. Not even...
...Government of President Gualberto Villarroel had long since done all that the State Department had requested. It had rounded up and deported some 80 high-placed Axis agents, had sent German and Jap diplomats home, had purged the Government of Axis sympathizers, had upped the export of tin and tungsten...
...invasion eve Portugal finally came through, banned all shipments of tungsten ore (also called wolfram, necessary in hardening steel) to Germany. Just after invasion, Sweden agreed to choke off an important German supply source. Sweden's SKF cut total ball-bearing shipments to Germany by one fifth. The withheld fifth included practically all Swedish bearings for Nazi tanks and planes...
...turned to Bolivia, began to apply modern techniques to abandoned, worked-over tin mines. Since then he has branched into copper, zinc, silver, tungsten-a variety of mine holdings which eventually exceeded those of Simón Patiño. A few Bolivians welcomed Hochschild and his up-&-coming ways; others cursed him for stimulating the specialized mining economy which caused Bolivia's underpaid, tuberculous, ill-fed masses untold misery, and prevented diversification which might have made a healthier economy...
...Caudillo Francisco Franco made no visible progress despite recent misinformation to the contrary. Already cut off from U.S. oil, Spain seized Anglo-U.S. oil stocks in Tetuán, Spanish Morocco, on the pretext that Spanish taxes had not been paid. The U.S. and Britain protested, but Spanish tungsten continued to flow into Germany for high-speed tools and armor-piercing shells...