Word: ores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frank S. Myers, Postmaster of Portland, Ore., was removed from office by the President one year before his term expired. Mr. Myers has since died. His heirs are suing to recover his salary for the rest of his term, contending that the Senate did not give its consent to his removal and, therefore, he technically remained in office...
...relay station of the University Wireless Club on top of the Stadium. Yesterday evening the club station, IXJ-IAF, operating with a 75-meter set, got into communication with British 2 CN, a station in Falmouth, England, and at its request it relayed a message to 7SP in Portland, Ore. Thus two stations 6000 miles apart were linked with a comparatively few minutes by the club station, which has done more work in the last two days than in had during the last two years in the old location. Members of the Wireless Club hope soon to get into communication...
...reach 49,000,000 cars-about 1,000,000 less than 1923, but 4,000,000 over the heavy year of 1920. Loadings of merchandise, miscellaneous and less-than-carload freight l have tended to increase during the past year, while a decline has been witnessed in coal, ore, coke...
...significance of this Treaty is that it hampers the much-mooted coalition ot German coke and Lorraine ore, as under the most favored nation clause whatever privileges Germany may extend to France she will automatically extend to the United Kingdom. It also means an end of discrimination against the Germans in Britain, for they will, under the Treaty, be allowed to deal in non-ferrous metals, to reopen banks, to serve in the merchant marine on the same terms as other aliens. Moreover, fishing rights have been made reciprocal. Apart from its significance, the raison d'etre...
...Colonel Furlong turned his attention to the West of this country, and has maintained a summer home in Pendleton, Ore., ever since. He visited among the Indian tribes of the West for a year, and in 1914 he won the world's rough-riding championship by riding the bucking bull "Sharkey." The same year he crossed the Alantic in a 22 ton schooner and proceeded to the north and west coasts of Africa where he explored many islands...