Word: ore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lake ships you say long round-topped whalebacks for the most part-carry coal" etc., but there are only about four of this type in inter-lake traffic while there are about 400 United States boats of the new flat-deck, straight-side type. Again, "they haul-iron ore from Lake Superior's southern shores." Escanaba, "Marquette and Ashland are the south shore ports. This year Ashland's tonnage was 7,140,203 and the tonnage of Marquette and Escanaba was estimated at 10,000,000. Duluth-Superior and Two Harbors tonnage 41,380,931. Incidentally...
Tough are the jaws of a rock crusher. They can masticate almost anything. Last week in Portland, Ore., they chewed up bottles containing $16,000 worth of liquor and roared contentedly as the stimulating fluid oozed forth. The whiskey, seized by the Government three years ago, had been the subject of a prolonged, legal fight. In the hour of triumph, the Women's Christian Temperance Union demanded a public doom for "the goods...
...Great Lakes, carry coal from Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky to ports of Lake Superior, the largest body of fresh water in the world. On the down voyage they haul wheat from Canada (Port Arthur and Fort William) and from the U. S. (Duluth), and iron ore from Lake Superior's southern shores. This commerce is immensely valuable and ship owners push their vessels to beyond the limits of the navigation season, which ends the first week in December and begins the middle of April. It is at the end of the season that St. Mary...
TIME will tell. LIEUT. L. A. ELLIOTT, U. S. Edgewood Arsenal, Md. Good. But TIME has already used it occasionally. - ED. To Subscriber E. B. Whittlesey of Scofield, Ore., $10. Early in November he submitted the slogan There is no time like the present There is no present like TIME. Said TIME on Nov. 8: "Let other subscribers submit slogans. To that subscriber who, before Dec. 1, produces a better than Subscriber Whittlesey's: $10. Otherwise, the $10 goes to Original Subscriber Whittlesey. - ED." 167 slogans were submitted - of which the above printed ones are specimens...
Last week it was presented by the American Grand Opera Company of Portland, Ore. Indian melodies, descriptive of Indian daily life and ceremonies, had been woven subtly into a rich orchestral background, made into a graceful romantic design simple as the story itself. Although it had no special thematic development, critics acknowledged, praised Composer Bimboni for his able conducting, for his score singularly free from monotony...