Word: freeport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consumption). Its cost was so high that within a few years after the Armistice domestic production had dribbled almost to the vanishing point. Steelmen wrote off the U. S., along with Cuba, as sources of manganese. Last week it appeared from the annual report of Freeport Sulphur Co. that steelmen may have been premature...
...Freeport Sulphur (which reported a net of $2,200,762, up 46.8% from 1938) owns 90% of Cuban-American Manganese Corp. The discoverer of Cuban manganese was a Rough Rider, John Campbell Greenway, later a famed Arizona rancher and copper tycoon who married a schoolmate of Eleanor Roosevelt. Rough Rider Greenway kicked up a lump of ore on a hike over a dusty Cuban road in '98, showed his find to fellow Lieut. David M. Goodrich. Easier to work than U. S. ore because it lies close to the surface, Cuban deposits were far lower grade than the Russian...
...onetime captain and quarterback of Michigan's famed 1905 point-a-minute team, husky, greying Frederick Stephenson Norcross Jr., a notable mining engineer, saw the possibilities when Goodrich sent him to Cuba to look for minerals. Prospector Norcross reported manganese was the best bet. Dave Goodrich got Freeport to put up $1,620,000 for development and joined Freeport's board. Norcross did the rest...