Word: ore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...landmark that on a clear day can be seen by an airplane pilot 50 miles away. It is also one of the world's most precious topographical oddities. Caué is Brazil's Iron Mountain, a fabulous lode of some of the world's best ore, pure enough (up to 68%) to compete with Sweden's finest, vast enough to challenge Minnesota's great Mesabi...
...sounds in his earphones: rhythmic clicks, five to 50 a minute, depending on the minerals under foot. As he walked, the clicking sped up, whirred into a roar. The man stopped, noted down the location. He had detected a deposit of the world's most coveted mineral: uranium ore, chief source of atomic energy...
...icebound harbor. A helicopter rose from its deck and flew ahead to hunt crevices and soft spots, radio back the line of least resistance. In a few hours the Mackinaw-helicopter team-the first used on the Great Lakes-had cleared a channel out into Lake Erie. A dozen ore carriers snaked along the narrow channel and followed the icebreaker down to Cleveland, thus opening navigation on the lower Great Lakes...
...Buffalo, it was the earliest port opening on record, 52 days ahead of last year. Shippers hoped that this meant an early opening for the rest of the Great Lakes, usually icebound till mid-April. It would come none too soon for steelmen. Their stockpiles of ore were so low that some mills were planning the expensive makeshift of shipping by rail from Minnesota's Mesabi range. The coal strike (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) would cut their needs if it lasted long enough. But steelmen kept their fingers crossed on that, as the Mackinaw steamed north to smash through...
...benefits of connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, which they believe would make Chicago the commercial capital of the world. They argue that the Seaway could relieve much of the pressure now taxing the country's overloaded transportation system. Minnesotans claim that the great Mesabi iron ore deposits that feed the mid-west steel mills are nearly played out, and if cheap Labrador ores can't be shipped down the St. Lawrence, an unthinkable dislocation of the steel industry will occur. Senator Wiley of Wisconsin warned in recent debates that, by refusing to build the Seaway, "we shall...