Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spent half his life shipping coal. But Bart Stewart thought there was a better way to do it than by train. Last week, he formed a company to build the longest conveyor belt in the world to haul coal and ore. It would stretch from Lorain on Lake Erie for 103 miles south to East Liverpool on the Ohio, with branch belts to Cleveland and Youngstown...
...trestles 22 feet above the ground, with "transfer points" (see cut) to shift the coal and iron up & down elevations in the land. Inside the tube would be two belts, one carrying coal north from the coal-mining towns along the Ohio River, the other carrying ore south from lake freighters to the steel mills. There would be enough room in between the belts for workers to tend the machinery. In this way Stewart hoped to move 29 million tons of coal, 30 million tons of iron ore and 3 million tons of limestone a year-at about half...
Leading among the spectator sports are Sled Dog Races (mush!) and Horse Racing on Ice, a terrifying pastime that apparently takes place every Sunday at Beaver Lake, Derry...
Another promising uranium region is the Khamar-Daban Range near Lake Baikal, possibly extending to the Aldan goldfields. It was known in 1914, and has been explored intermittently ever since. Even in the Ukraine, close to Russia's oldest industrial centers, there are excellent indications of uranium. In 1940, A. E. Fersman reported that the pegmatites (coarse-grained granites) of the region are worth intensive study as possible uranium sources...
Bench & Bar. In Salt Lake City, the City Commission ruled that before City Judge Marcellus K. Snow could assume office, he would have to pay up his 37 back parking fines. In Harlan, Ky., Special Circuit Judge Cleon K. Calvert charged himself with public drunkenness, promptly ordered a $10 fine...