Word: ores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gold mine. In Butte, he dug for copper. Gold miners, seeing his wagons start out on their 400-mile trek to the nearest railroad at Corinne, Utah, laughed aloud. "There go Clark's rocks," they jeered. And they were 98.37% right. Only 1.63% of the gray copper ore can be reduced to valuable metal. But it was enough to build the little man a $100,000,000 fortune...
...President Coolidge anticipated the end of his vacation season and began to go forth from his secluded island and mingle more with the people. He planned a morning ride all through the streets and ore docks of Duluth, Minnesota. He planned a trip on the yacht of H. L. Gary of Kansas City to the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior. He journeyed, taking Mrs. Coolidge and son John Coolidge with him, to Wausau, Wisconsin, for a state convention of the American Legion, where he clapped a red "overseas" cap on his head and made a speech praising the war-renouncing...
Steel. Republic Iron & Steel Co. (Youngstown, Ohio) approved consolidation with the smaller Steel & Tubes, Inc., (Cleveland, Ohio), for these reasons: Republic can furnish Steel & Tubes with strip steel and pipe, developing its coal and ore reserves, bringing plant operation near capacity. Assets of the two companies total about $200,000,000. Steel & Tubes, Inc., rose from the business of the Wick family of Youngstown and Cleveland. An astute, enterprising Wick is Myron A., now President of Steel & Tubes...
Thirty-six years ago, when Calvin Coolidge was a countrified freshman at Amherst, a train of cars creaked down from the Mesaba Range, where Hibbing was to be built, bearing the first shipment of blood-colored rocks and dust.* Today the Mesaba district produces 63 million tons of iron ore per annum, four-fifths the total consumption of the U. S. In 1892, the iron ranges of Wisconsin and the Michigan peninsula-Gogebic, Florence, Menominee-had been developed for over a decade. They were the first answer to Railroader James J. Hill's gloomy prediction that the world...
...iron ore is called "hematite." Magnetite, another iron ore, is black; limonite, another, yellowish-brown...