Word: ore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great timber, pulp, ore and shipping industries Swedish capital, while not operating under laissez-faire conditions, is given a fairly free swing to charge what the traffic-mostly foreign-will bear. Last year Swedish exporters of forest products and iron and steel did a $300,230,880 business, keeping the foreign trade balance weighted toward Sweden...
...Most steel is made about half of scrap, half of new ore...
...They found that the U. S. produced 34% of the world's coal; 32% of its copper; 35% of its electric power; 29% of its iron ore; 62% of its oil; 78% of its sulphur; 22% of its lead; 79% of its passenger automobiles and 66% of its trucks; 30% of its cotton and 67% of its silk goods; 67% of its rubber goods; 43% of its chemicals; 90% of its movies...
...ping pong tables, croquet sets, duck decoys, fishing tackle, riding boots, bathing suits, bicycles, travel books, pianos, phonograph records, violins, skis, garden seed, sailboats-a vast index of their tastes and needs, as fundamental to the U. S. temperament as the commercialism generally applied to it. If the iron ore of the Mesabi made it inevitable that there should be a vast steel industry in the U. S., the first glimpse of the Rockies, steel-blue and airy, made it inevitable that there would always be a U. S. market for pack saddles; and the first glimpse of the Yellowstone...
...Portland, Ore., a "Mr. Wadouski" telephoned a welder, explained that robbers had tried to crack the safe of his store but had only succeeded in jamming it. The welder opened the safe, was paid $5 for the job. Off walked Burglar Wadouski with $1,000 in cash...