Word: ores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...division of the Portland (Ore.) Chamber of Commerce last week determined, and published their determination, to use the Cotsworth-Eastman 13-month calendar, "provided it is universally adopted." That is the calendar Chairman George Eastman of the Eastman Kodak Co. has been giving his active support (TIME, June...
...only will Swedish switchboard girls continue to give out the time, but for a charge of 10 ore (2½c), they will perform the following new types of super-service...
Twenty-two red legs carrying eleven redskins were throbbing over the 480-mile Redwood Highway between San Francisco and Grant's Pass, Ore. The red lips of Miss Redwood Empire, "little fawn" of the Hopi Indians, greeted John Mad Bull of the Karook tribe when he staggered across the finish line last week-the winner of the marathon. He had covered the 480 miles (longest footrace ever held in the U. S.) in 7 days, 12 hours, 34 minutes. He was rewarded with a $1,000 prize, to which he added $50 to purchase an automobile...
William Averell Harriman, U. S. financier who has been cruising about central and eastern Europe the last few years seeking opportunities for investing his money, last week clinched control of all manganese ore mined in the Soviet Union. Two years ago the Soviet gave him a concession to mine manganese, invaluable ore for toughening steel, in the Caucasus Mountains, between the Black and the Caspian Seas. He was to pay the Soviet Government $3 for each ton of manganese mined and to rebuild a railroad from Tiflis to Poti. He had to produce at least 500 tons of manganese...
...Geology, from the Shaler Memorial Fund to aid his research work in the mines of Africa next year was announced yesterday. Professor Graton has previously been granted a Sabbatical for the year 1927-28 and backed by the Bureau of International Research has formed plans to study rock and ore formations in the world's deepest mines which are to be found in Brazil, South Africa, and South India...