Word: wolfram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Manchuria eastward through Sinkiang, along some 3,500 miles of Inner Asian border between Russia and China, a great shift in power neared completion last week. The vast, potentially rich (oil, coal, gold, wolfram, uranium) territory known as China's Northwest was falling into the Communist orbit...
...wrote: "Heil Hitler, ich komme bald" (I'm coming soon). Last week, in the courtyard of the Landsberg prison, Karl Brandt went to his gallows.* With him went six other Nazi doctors and SS officers, including Karl Gebhardt, Himmler's physician, and bearded, Mephistophelean SS Colonel Wolfram Sievers, Military Research Institute head who, among other things, had gathered non-Aryan skulls for Himmler's notable collection...
...into Sinkiang itself.* Because the Chinese Government was weak, distant, and preoccupied with Japan, he had even allowed the Russians to station troops in the province. They built roads, airports, factories, aircraft assembly plants. They began to develop Sinkiang's rich, mineral wealth, bored oil wells and dug wolfram mines...
...Soviet Cultural Association, a school and a hospital. On Sundays, most of Tihua's Russians (more than 200 in all) go up the Urumchi River for an isolated picnic. In northwest Sinkiang and the western outpost of Kashgar there are even more Russians. Sinkiang workmen are mining valuable wolfram for them at Fuwen; others are tapping the rich oil pools at Wusu...
...WOLFRAM HILL St. Paul...