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Word: ores (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wily Founder Pittock wholly loose his loving hold on the Oregonian. His will left his 470 (out of 700) shares of Oregonian stock to two trustees, with "full and complete authority" to run the paper for 20 years. That trust ends next January 28. Last week the surviving trustee, Ore Lee Price, (age 61), Henry Pittock's longtime private secretary, made a long anticipated move. Pending expiration of the trust, when Mr. Price plans to retire for good, he will hold the title of president & publisher. Succeeding him last week in the key executive job as manager was Edwin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Portland Saga | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...gallery in suspense until he finally conquered his opponent, 2 & 1. The field of 162 had narrowed down to four -and still Spectator Vines could not leave Pittsburgh. Pat Abbott was one of the semifinalists, along with three other dark horses: 23-year-old Edwin Kingsley, a husky Utah ore sampler who had tasted his first sip of fame when he eliminated Charley Yates the first day; 27-year-old Dick Chapman, who had competed in five previous U. S. Amateurs but had never before reached the first round of match play; and 23-year-old Willie Turnesa, amateur baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Willie | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...application stressed the communities its new line would serve, the company hopes to find a pot of gold at the end of its modest rainbow. The extremity of the projected line will reach the Mesabi Iron Range, richest in the U. S., whose ores now go to the blast furnaces of Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania. However, Mesabi has also much low-grade ore which has not been considered worth shipping out for smelting. K. P. L. & G. hopes by bringing a low-priced fuel to the site of Mesabi's low-grade ores to beget a new steel industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Gas for Iron | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...Ore., for the tenth annual International Sourdough Reunion. Swapping tall stories, but doing little whooping in the Multnomah bar (see cut), which, like other Oregon taprooms, serves no hard liquor, were such diverse sourdoughs as Alaska's Episcopal Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe, Henry Macaulay, first mayor of Dawson, Editor Frank J. Cotter of Seattle's Alaska Weekly, scores of old Yukon prospectors, storekeepers, mail clerks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: Sourdough Social | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...selves surprised at the way small towns and cities have responded. In Sioux City, Iowa, last winter the local Plumbers' Union, WPA carpenters, the High School manual training classes, a local fur dealer and the Junior League all labored together to give Art a fitting home. In Salem, Ore., a retired professor contributed the first $100 and 2,000 school children chipped in. In Greensboro, N. C., the Community Centre was established in a busted bank and is now regarded by adjacent businessmen as a far greater asset in the location than the bank ever was. Laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In the Business District | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

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