Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...facilities in Cuba and a $100 million refinery in Louisiana. Freeport's facilities will produce 50 million Ibs. of nickel annually, of which the U.S. will have the right to take up to 30% for stockpiling. The U.S. also contracted with M.A. Hanna Co. (to open a ferronickel mine in Riddle, Ore., which is now producing 11 million Ibs. a year) and with Canada's Falconbridge...
...three, B.A.S.F. saw its Rhineside plant at Ludwigshafen 45% bombed out, started up again in 1945 with only 800 workers. Today the smoky, sprawling plant is Western Europe's biggest chemical unit with 36,600 workers. B.A.S.F. also employs 11,000 at its Auguste-Victoria coal mine in the Ruhr. Masterminding B.A.S.F.'s comeback is its wartime head, Chairman Carl Wurster, 56, who was acquitted at Nurnberg on charges of plundering occupied countries and employing slave labor...
...Manganese-ore deposits of 1,000,000 tons with 45% metal content were found at Djebel Guettara, south of Morocco. France calculates that with an investment of only $2,000,000, she could economically mine 50,000 tons a year...
Harriet saw. In Paris she staked out a claim to her private gold mine-a cosmetic cream that she claimed was invented for Madame Recamier. a premature career girl of the Napoleonic era. In due course, Harriet returned to the U.S. with her saucer of cream. It was a business triumph but a personal disaster. Along the way she had committed her daughter Margaret to the care of a frenetic novelist and proprietor of a finishing school named Blanche Willis Howard, who became The False Friend Who Poisoned Her Daughter's Mind Against Her Mother. She herself fell under...
...fact, Wilde distrusts the whole safari-even the coy lady anthropologist (Donna Reed) and her missionary uncle (Leo Genn), and certainly the natives, as shifty-eyed a pack as ever whetted spears. The snail's pace direction makes it seem they will never find that blasted mine...