Word: ore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feels the same way about structural metals, such as iron, aluminum and magnesium. Rich and handy ore deposits will be exhausted soon, but there will always be plenty of low-grade stuff. Sea water can be mined for many useful materials, and the same granite that provides uranium can supply nearly every mineral...
...Trade? The Japanese should know that Communist trade rarely works out as advertised, and usually contains more propaganda than produce. Last year's barter deal with China for $170 million in raw materials such as iron ore and lumber in return for finished products from Japan has yet to produce its first delivery. Nevertheless, Japan's economy is so shaky that businessmen are clamoring for more business with China despite U.S. pressures. They think the fact that trade would strengthen China in the cold war is not as important as the fact that Sino-Japanese trade would also...
...Ore & Atoms. Florida's real−and least expected−source of wealth is just now being discovered. Long considered poor in basic raw materials, the state has been finding uses for things that once were considered worthless. Around Jacksonville, two companies are mining ilmenite and rutile, from which the wonder metal titanium is produced. To the south, near Fort Myers, an oilfield is producing commercially. Oil was also found last month in a new area not far away. To the north, slash pine is feeding the paper and chemical industries. In the Everglades, Newport Industries and other companies...
...remarkable thing about them is their enormous age. The iron ore above the flint bed has been dated by Professor Patrick Hurley of M.I.T., who estimates that it is 1.3 billion years old. Since the fossil algae and fungi lie far below it, they are probably something like 2 billion years...
...YORK Central is negotiating to lease Canadian National railroad's 40-mile branch line between Massena, N. Y. and Huntingdon, Que. The Central sees the short, easy-grade line as an important link in its plan to do a heavy freight business by picking up Labrador ore at the Montreal terminus, shipping it southwest to U.S. blast furnaces...