Word: mesabi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nearness to the huge Mesabi iron-ore range and Midwestern grain fields has made Duluth, the western terminus of the St. Lawrence Seaway, one of the busiest ports in the U.S. But Duluth (pop. 106,-800) has another asset, which is making its own unique contribution to the growth of the thriving city: four big scholarship funds, including two in operation for the first time this year. They have raised the educational level of its high school system, and will support 286 Minnesota students on college scholarships this year, of whom all but 72 are graduates of Duluth high schools...
...Symphony, the Twin Cities' main longhair radio station, a theater, a natural history museum. From the university's labs have come hardier hogs, wheat and strawberries. By developing a way to extract iron ore from low-grade taconite. the university helped save northern Minnesota's depleted Mesabi Range...
...black dot on the map called Chicago. It is altogether different to teach him the basics of social and economic geography-and then give him a map with physical features but no place names. He may locate Chicago at the junction of the three lakes, near the Mesabi range or on the rich soil of Iowa. But he has given thought to the matter...