Word: ores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Federation of Labor, holding its annual convention at Portland, Ore. (TIME, Oct. 8) proceeded to the business of grinding out resolutions. This is the main function of the convention. Literally scores of resolutions were proposed and referred to committees?95 in the first five days alone. Some of the more important resolutions proposed...
...American Federation of Labor opened its 43d annual convention in Portland, Ore., and before it came its patriarchal leader, Samuel Gompers, with a declaration of faith...
...Plant Equipment in the Chemical Engineering Industries, Materials of Construction, Chemistry in Commerce. Classes of students from nearby universities were personally conducted by their professors. The General Electric Co. showed an automatic welding apparatus and an electric steam generator. The Anaconda Copper Co. demonstrated methods of roasting sulphurous copper ore to secure by-product sulphuric acid, with which superphosphate fertilizers are made. Eimer & Amend, instrument manufacturers, displayed a photomicrographic camera, to be attached to an ordinary microscope. The Research Corporation, organized to market new inventions, exhibited an electric precipitator for dried milk and a caterpillar drive adjustable at any time...
...rabbit with a cork leg, wobbly ears and a false eye, its bodily structure fabricated of brown cotton, is paying a visit to Portland, Ore. The reason for this animal's visit is the opening of the annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor on Oct. 1. The rabbit is there as the mascot of the greatest cigarmaker in the world's history ? Samuel Gompers...
...distribute radium from this field at cost price. Radium manufactured from carnotite deposits in Colorado costs from $85 to $110 a milligram, or approximately $50,000,000 a pound. This has been reduced in the last two years to $70 a milligram by the exploitation of much richer ore veins in the Belgian Congo. The Turkestan samples of pitchblende (the main source of radium) run almost twice as high in radium content as the Congo ores, and will make possible its distribution in America at $35 to $40 a milligram. The total amount of radium in use in the world...