Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minnesota's Taconite Amendment
...figure in an Indian jacket, and placed a plumed hat atop his long curled peruke (two such wigs are known to have belonged to Du Luth). The result, conceived as a mythical hero (see opposite page), will be unveiled this week on the Duluth campus of the University of Minnesota. Possessing both the dignity of a daydream Rodin and the robust romance of a Disneyesque giant, it is an unconventional monument by the unconventional Lipchitz...
Born. To Sam Mele, 43, the American League's Manager of the Year for taking the Minnesota Twins to the top, and Mary Clemens Mele, 35: their fifth child, second son; in Quincy, Mass...
Catalyst for More. Seven companies, mostly organized by steel firms, are now building $1 billion worth of taconite-processing plants that will employ 9,000 men and ship 33 million tons of pellet ore annually. By 1990 the capacities of these plants will double. Two new Minnesota towns, Silver Bay and Hoyt Lakes, have recently been created. The taconite boom is also reviving older towns: in Chisholm (pop. 7,100), unemployment has fallen from 33% three years ago to only 6% today. Mining company payrolls and purchases will soon reach $194 million a year, and Minnesota expects the taconite industry...
...Minnesota's good fortune has caused ripples elsewhere. With ranges like the Mesabi running low, the U.S. steel industry since World War II has increasingly depended on imported ore, now buys 33% abroad. The guarantee of a 300-year supply of taconite ore, which produces twice as much pig iron per ton as natural ore and requires less coke and limestone in the steelmaking process, is luring new steel mills, traditionally centered in an arc around Pittsburgh, to the lower Lake Michigan area. Another lure: the rising demand for durable goods in the Midwest, where automakers, farm-machinery plants...