Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colossal efficiency of the steel industry in handling brutal mass begins at its source. From the time iron ore is dug from the mines it scarcely stops moving till it reaches the blast furnaces in Gary or Pittsburgh. Along spurs of no fewer than nine railroads, box cars crawl out of the ore pits and stock piles toward the lake ports, roll on high trestles to the loading docks, which are anywhere from a sixth to a half-mile long. There each car is clamped by a cradle, lifted and dumped into hoppers from which the ore spouts into...
...vacationland provided by Nature on a scale with the prairies of the Mississippi Valley. To U. S. industry their clear water has been for years the cheapest medium in the world for moving freight. The Great Lakes waterway curves southeast 1,000 miles from the greatest sources of iron ore on the continent to the greatest U. S. steelmaking centres. It lies between the richest grainland of North America and the richest consumer population on any seaboard in the world. The tonnage of freight shipped and received at lake ports in 1929 surpassed that of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific...
...Iron Ground. In 1844 a surveyor named William A. Burt, plagued by a dipping compass needle, discovered outcroppings of iron ore on Michigan's upper peninsula near Lake Superior. During the next few years prospectors filtered in among the Indians and trappers, word filtered out to Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo of the 30-mile Marquette iron range. Chief problem for interested capital was how to get ships into Lake Superior against the rapids of St. Mary's River. In Congress cold Henry Clay had killed an appropriation for a canal at Sault Ste. Marie, saying it might as well...
Symbolic was the fact that last week the first freighter out of Duluth carried not ore but scrap iron. Since mining began in the Superior region, more than $3,000,000,000 worth of ore from the Mesabi alone has been transformed into the iron & steel of heavy industry. In 1929 the U. S. Bureau of Mines estimated that if ore continued to move out of the Lake Superior region at the rate of 65,204,600 tons a year, all the high-grade ore in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan would be exhausted in about 37 years. That rate fell...
...will be commissioned by U. S. Steel's Pittsburgh Steamship Co., biggest steamship line on the Lakes, about half of whose 72 freighters were in Whitefish Bay last week. Second biggest line, with 47 ships, is Interlake Steamship Co., an affiliate of old & famed Pickands-Mather & Co., coal & iron. Notable among independent companies is the Tomlinson Fleet, founded in 1901 by Cleveland's crotchety George Ashley Tomlinson, 71, colleague of George A. Ball in the great Van Sweringen Deal (TIME, Dec. 14 et seq.), whose transportation interests were further enlarged fortnight ago when he became chairman of Missouri...