Word: ores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knicked it, and fought on. Dr. Capers C. Jones, of Birmingham, Ala., 91, barked at Secretary of War Harry Woodring: "Give me your hand. I ain't going to bite you." "I'm sweet 16 and never been kissed!" shouted Yankee Daniel Daffron, 92, of Forest Grove, Ore. Said his harried attendant: "Have I had a time trying to keep track...
...last Democratic President was prevailed on, during the World War, to cut the original Mt. Olympus monument area almost in half so as to stimulate private prospecting for manganese ore. Some ores were found, but the real wealth of the Olympics is their mantle of giant fir, spruce, cedar and hemlock, their abounding game (trout, bear, cougar as well as elk), their scenery. Also during the War, the Government built a spruce production railroad there to get out special woods for airplane construction. The lumbering now is mostly in private hands (Weyerhaeuser, Long-Bell, Northern Pacific) and the jagged boundaries...
First Ship Through Bonneville Dam (Sat. 1 p.m. CBS) passes through locks to open The Dalles, Ore. to ocean commerce...
Portland, Ore...
Minks are famed for their ravenous appetites, their expensive pelts, their cannibalistic habit of devouring their young when frightened. Last week in Astoria, Ore., William and Emil Urell, operators of a mink farm, appeared before a board of officers from a nearby Coast Guard station, claimed the U. S. Coast Guard owed them $6,750 for damages. Right after the whelping season, they testified, a Coast Guard amphibian plane whizzed over their farm within 150 feet of the ground. The mother minks, terror-stricken by the drumming racket, dashed wildly about the cages, seized their 270 mink kittens, gobbled them...