Word: ores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scofield, Ore...
Last week the University of Oregon (Eugene, Ore.) celebrated its semicentennial. There were the usual speeches and felicitations, all very pleasant; but, far more interesting was an interview some newsgatherer obtained with one William Scott, aged 70, a housepainter, of Creswell, Ore. It had been Mr. Scott who, when the University's registration book was first opened in 1876, had had his name written on the topmost line. The second and third students to register were his sister Mathilda, his brother "Ron." His grandfather, Capt. Levi Scott was the university's first janitor. His father, William...
...London and more than 71? at Manhattan. London gambling in tin has apparently ceased for a while, but London's control of this metal has not, for Great Britain holds suzerainty over the Federated Malay States (holders of 50% of the world's tin ore stores*) and controls 75% of the world's smelters...
...same ore veins run under the Pacific into the Dutch-owned islands of the Malayan Archipelago. The other great deposit is in the Bolivian Andes, 15,000 feet above sea level. Traces of tin have been found in Alaska on the edge of the Arctic Ocean but "no developments . . . justify any hope that the United States will eventually become independent of foreign sources of supply," according to the 1922 Tin report of the U. S. Tariff Commission. Practically no tin is found in continental U. S. Appreciable deposits exist in Cornwall (known since the time of the Phoenicians, the Philistines...
...Simultaneously another $50,000,000 were to be sold in London, Brussels, Amsterdam and Berlin to establish credits with English and Continental banks of issue. This is the first time since the War that one of the Allies has sold bonds publicly in Germany. Specialty Shops tradesmen of Portland, Ore., individualists catering to individualistic customers, have adopted a program of enlightened co-operation to offset the competition of department stores. Department stores are inherently consolidations of specialty shops, but, depending upon mass sales, they tend to stock only standardized products and to slight the buyer who has personal whims. Portland...