Word: ores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Espana. British freighters meanwhile were running General Franco's blockade of Bilbao with impunity, making preparations to evacuate as many women and children as possible to France, England and Scandinavia. Out of Bilbao harbor last week came the British freighter Knitsley, loaded with Basque iron ore for Welsh steel mills. Six miles offshore the Rightist destroyer Velasco and the Espana, only battleship in General Franco's navy, steamed up, the Velasco firing shots across the Knitsley's, bow. With helm hard alee the Knitsley started to run back to the shelter of nearby Santander, still held...
Doubting Thomases suggested that there was more to the British sympathy for Bilbao than pure altruism for a besieged city. Vitally needed for Welsh steel mills, now on 24-hour schedules as part of Britain's rearmament, is iron ore from Basque mines. And Welsh farmers have long had a private arrangement with Basque potato growers. From carefully tended fields they ship high-priced seed potatoes to Bilbao twice a year, take back in exchange mature food potatoes, grown in Spain's warm and dry climate...
...super-terminals with runways of 4,000 ft. in four directions, plus two miles of clear approaches; terminals with 3,500-ft. runways; limited terminals with 2,200-ft. runways. This means that such important stops as New ark, Detroit, Washington, Chicago, Kan sas City, St. Louis and Portland,. Ore. would be "limited" ports unless greatly improved...
England exhausted her iron faster than coal, and now finds it convenient to export coal to such a city as Bilbao, bringing the ships home laden with ore. British capital and coal has enabled the city to build up a steel industry, though three-fourths of the iron that reaches the city is exported to England. Germany has never had sufficient iron. It is no accident, therefore, that the headquarters of the German "volunteers" in Spain have been set up at Devo, thirty miles from Bilbao, and these troops are leading the attempt to reduce the defenses of the Northern...