Word: ores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Broker Eaton's steel interests were expanded to include an "alliance" with the iron interests of another famed Clevelander, William G. Mather, whose Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. joined the large group of "Eaton interests." Oldest mining company in the Lake Superior region. Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. iron ore properties ranked with the richest in the country. Its subsidiary properties include a railroad, a fleet of 24 ships, a power company, bituminous coal deposits, and several hundred thousand acres of timber lands. Thus Broker Eaton's various steel companies were assured of ample raw material, and Cleveland's Steel...
...buried facts, the President plotted his operation cautiously. Six or nine worthy men had first to be found, men without passion or prejudice on prohibition. Their descent must be well charted-where to break ground, how far down to go, what machinery to use to bring up the ugly ore of crime...
...temporary use at Aintree, England, scene of the Grand National Steeplechase (TIME, March 18). Other bars which claimed to be the longest in the world were: the Atlantic Bar of Butte, Mont., where 24 bartenders catered to the miners: and the L-shaped Fritz & Russell bar of Portland, Ore. Seeking elite patronage, Fritz -& Russell used to advertise: "See the largest bar in the world, lined with the working giants of the woods, taking their glasses of beer and telling tales of the forest. See the jolly tar, fresh from his ship, spinning tales of the deep blue sea." These sights...
...American Smelting & Refining Co. is the world's largest smelting and refining organization, but is interested in lead and silver as well as in copper, and smelts and refines much ore produced by Kennecott, Phelps-Dodge, Utah and other copper concerns...
...density different from the surrounding rock, tend to deflect the direction of gravity and the change, though almost infinitesimal, from the standpoint of ordinary human experience, is capable of measurement by observing the amount of rotation of a light beam appropriately weighted and suspended on a thin platinum wire. Ore bodies themselves are rarely large enough to cause detectable variations in gravity, but large features such as heavier rock in cores of folds, dome-shaped masses of salt, or bleached cavernous ground can often be recognized by the anomalies caused by them in the gravitational field, and critical evidence bearing...