Word: ore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corp.'s President Arthur Bartlett Homer scissored a ribbon one afternoon last week. In the dark waters of the Bay of Quinte at the foot of the cliff, the rust-red lake steamer Powell Stackhouse cast off for Lackawanna, N.Y. with the first load of eastern Ontario iron ore...
Canada should this year be a net exporter of iron ore for the first time...
Belgium, in its strong position as a major supplier of raw uranium ore from the Belgian Congo (see FOREIGN NEWS), has had less trouble than most in getting U.S. aid and assistance. Its first low-power reactor, using 30 tons of U.S.-refined uranium and 500 tons of British graphite (as moderator), is under construction...
Sweden has been trading its own low-grade uranium ore (200 grams of uranium per metric ton) for refined French uranium metal. At present the Swedes have one 300-kw. reactor built underground in Stockholm, another big reactor with a probable output of 20,000 kw. and some plutonium...
Although imports will rise less than gross national product, they will reach $11 billion in 1960, a 26% gain during the decade. Biggest gainers will be bauxite (up 97.5%), crude oil (up 103%) and iron ore (up 300%). Biggest losers: tin (down 5%), wool (down 10%). Assuming that foreign aid ends, exports will edge up only 1%, but they will all be paid for. U.S. capital outflow will have doubled...