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Plants for Pellets. So far, Erie Mining's Aurora, Minn, plant is the only one producing the walnut-sized pellets in commercial quantities. U.S. Steel, which has felt no rush for substitutes because it owns the biggest share of the remaining rich ores, has been content to build two pilot plants. But Republic Steel and Armco, not as well supplied, 18 months ago went into taconites in a big way through their joint subsidiary, Reserve Mining Co. (TIME...
Minor Sport H--Paul Baumgartner, Kansas City, Mo:; John R. Jones, Austin, Minn.; William H. Nichols, Jr., Weston; John J. Shea, Jr., Springfield; James M. Smith, Ipswich; Frank R. Sweet, Harwichport; Robert J. Guttentag, Manager, Newton...
...Sale. The man who started cataloguing this cavalcade of America was Richard Warren Sears, a tall and dark promoter who, in the words of one admiring contemporary, "could sell a breath of air." Sears was a railroad telegrapher in tiny North Redwood, Minn, in the '80s-a time when shady manufacturers unloaded their stocks by shipping them C.O.D. to unsuspecting small-town merchants, then offered them cut-rate prices "to avoid return shipping costs." When a shipment of men's "yellow watches," hunting-case type, and gold-filled (value of the gold: 27?) was refused by a local...
...Wayzata, Minn...
Inflation. In Richfield, Minn., after the State Bank celebrated its fifth anniversary by passing out wooden nickels that had cost it 8? each, local merchants accepted the coins at face value...