Word: lode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than the facts about U.S. nickel supplies: U.S. production was almost nil, yet U.S. nickel requirements would be doubled by 1975. Last week brighter news about the U.S. nickel outlook came from Canada. Falconbridge Nickel Mines Ltd. began development of a new mine in northern Ontario on an estimated lode of 10 million tons of rich copper-nickel ore. A nine-year U.S. Government contract insures that practically all the mine's output will...
...trends-political as well as economic-into the future. "In extraction industries," he says, "you have to look ahead or you will find that you have got everything out of the ground that is to be had-and you're out of business." The rich Mesabi iron-ore lode in Minnesota is wearing thin as the nation's (and Hanna's) prime ore source. Twenty years ago Hanna proved the big ore field which Bethlehem Steel is now operating in Venezuela. ("We didn't develop it," says Humphrey, "because there were political difficulties in Venezuela.") Then...
...were trying to find out whether its uranium veins were worth working. Wade V. Lewis, an experienced hard-rock miner and president of the company that owns the Free Enterprise, soon discovered that the visiting invalids assayed higher than anything in the mine: every carload was a pay-lode...
Canada's vast area (next in size to the Soviet Union and China) throbs with industrial action. In bleak Ungava, where only the rashest prospector ever ventured a decade ago, a new railway is thrusting through the wilderness to tap an iron-ore lode larger than the state of Connecticut, and perhaps as rich as the famed Mesabi Range in northern Minnesota. Above an Indian village named Kitimat, in the stony heights of British Columbia, engineers are damming half a dozen mountain lakes, creating a waterfall 15 times as high as Niagara, to power the world's biggest...
...News was carrying the names as a "public service," but it was also a smart circulation stunt. The paper hit on the idea while getting together a series on income taxes a fortnight ago. When it heard about the unclaimed lode in a single district (Manhattan's Third), it sold the U.S. Treasury the idea of printing the names as an experiment in getting the refunds paid. The city desk assigned a special staff to compile lists of taxpayers owed $100 or more. The News expects to run the lists (totaling about 6,000 names) for almost two weeks...