Word: ore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writing either: 1) Eddie Albert Productions, 1133 North Highland, Hollywood 28, Calif.; or 2) E. C. Brown Trust, University of Oregon Medical School, Portland, Ore...
...Eugene, Ore...
Itabira is the name popularly given to Caué, and for two centuries its wealth has been a legend. Early colonists melted its ore into blunderbusses, horseshoes and crude plowshares. International bankers gambled with the concession during the early 1900s. But it was World War II that set shovels biting into Itabira's crown...
Soon machines were shipped in, roads were snaked around Itabira's core, and test drillings were sunk into the solid heart. The peak's top 300 feet proved out as "compact hematite," red as rust and heavy to the hand-and the best ore there is. Below were huge deposits of "Canga" (54-62% iron) and soft "Itabarite" "(45-52%). After the tests, the work went ahead faster than ever. Though mechanization was by no means complete, Rio Doce was showing results. Last year, 700-odd Brazilian miners, with the help of two U.S. superintendents...
Getting to Market. Development of Itabira has been handicapped by bad management, waste, nepotism and political featherbedding. Moreover, once the ore is dug, it is not easy to get to market. The railroad's locomotives are woodburning, its cars antiquated. Vitoria's port facilities are so poor that it takes 30 hours to load an ore ship; modern machinery could do it in 30 minutes...