Word: ores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...engineers in the coal-and-iron-studded mountains that were to make Birmingham the first industrial city of the South. The Age-Herald gave its encouragement to the early iron-and-steelmongers who tried and failed, and tried again and again to make good metal from the sulphurous mountain ore and sell it profitably. It helped educate Birmingham out of its suicidal policy of selling cheap pig iron to northern manufacturers. The U. S. Steel Corp. put George Gordon Crawford in as 38-year-old president of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. with the cheery news that...
Birmingham's growing pains were fierce ones. She had lots of labor and lots of ore, but both of low quality. She had nine railroads but these, after most of her other difficulties were solved, were long in the throes of rate wars. And after the railroads were quieted and regulated, two wide new vistas opened, calling Birmingham to fresh effort-the vistas of enormous power from nearby Muscle Shoals and of egress to the Gulf of Mexico down the Warrior River...
Sued for Divorce. Moy Back Hin, 70, millionaire tong ruler of Portland, Ore.; by Leong Ho. Moy claims that Leong Ho is his housekeeper, that Ng Shee is his wife. Pearl, one of the children, claims that she has never known any other mother than Leong...
...public auditorium of which Portland, Ore., is proud, Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten last week led his symphony orchestra through an orgy of fantasy. A native of Portland, Dent Mowrey, had studied music in Paris, and in dreamy moments had idled over the lle de la Cité, whereon is the Cathedral of Notre Dame. Student Mowrey would enter the felted front doors, would sniff at the dank air, would think he could hear the paint cracking on the pictures. Outdoors, on the grey square, he would crane his head up at the rain-spouts, which old artisans had carved...
...Hours later Margaret Hauser of Long Beach, Calif., and Martha Stager of Portland, Ore., were discovered plodding along. Weakened they had to give up. Said Mr. Wrigley stepping from his steamer on which he had watched the contestants: "I'll give each of these girls...