Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mining venture, Bethlehem Steel's open-pit operation at Marmora, Ont., which will provide jobs for some 270 residents of the industry-poor region. Trade and Commerce Minister C. D. Howe, in a speech at the ceremony, spotlighted another point of significance for Canada's fast-growing iron mining industry: "With the opening of Steep Rock in northwestern Ontario, the Quebec-Labrador mines, and this mine...
Canada should this year be a net exporter of iron ore for the first time...
...Marmora iron deposit first appeared as some interesting squiggles on a geomagnetic map drawn after a 1949 aerial survey sponsored by the federal and provincial governments. Bethlehem quietly bought up options, then began probing the subsurface rocks with diamond drills...
Bethlehem invested some $20 million stripping off the overburden, constructing ore-loading docks at Picton, 64 miles to the south, and building a mill at the mine site to convert the low-grade (37.5%) ore to pellets testing 65% iron. With ready access to rail transport (through a specially built C.N.R. spur) and a 211-mile water haul through Lake Ontario, the mine emerged as an economical source of ore for Bethlehem's Lackawanna plant, near Buffalo...
...Eskimos who accompanied Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson on their history-making trek to the North Pole in 1909; of old age; near Thule, Greenland. A sturdy, 34-year-old hunter when he served with Peary, Ootah (also known as Odaq) was called "Peary's Iron Man," remarked of the journey back from the Pole: "The Devil is asleep or having trouble with his wife, or we should never have come back so easily...