Word: ores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crisis with Germany will be precipitated. The reason is Spanish iron. Neither England or Germany own much iron internally, but in recent years England has made up its deficit from Spain, which is just what Germany would like to do. Control of these mines, all of which send ore to the sea via Bilbao, seems to be the greatest objective of German troops in Spain...
...colossal efficiency of the steel industry in handling brutal mass begins at its source. From the time iron ore is dug from the mines it scarcely stops moving till it reaches the blast furnaces in Gary or Pittsburgh. Along spurs of no fewer than nine railroads, box cars crawl out of the ore pits and stock piles toward the lake ports, roll on high trestles to the loading docks, which are anywhere from a sixth to a half-mile long. There each car is clamped by a cradle, lifted and dumped into hoppers from which the ore spouts into...
Symbolic was the fact that last week the first freighter out of Duluth carried not ore but scrap iron. Since mining began in the Superior region, more than $3,000,000,000 worth of ore from the Mesabi alone has been transformed into the iron & steel of heavy industry. In 1929 the U. S. Bureau of Mines estimated that if ore continued to move out of the Lake Superior region at the rate of 65,204,600 tons a year, all the high-grade ore in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan would be exhausted in about 37 years. That rate fell...
Ships. At the close of 1936 there were 867 U. S. and Canadian steamers, motorships and barges with a combined tonnage of 3,323,105 gross tons plying the Great Lakes. During the season they transported 50,200,666 net tons of ore, 44,699,443 tons of coal, 7,433,967 tons of grain and 12,080,672 tons of limestone to and from lake ports. From Duluth, Superior, Escanaba, they brought ore to the mills of Gary, South Chicago and Cleveland, to Ashtabula and Conneaut to be transshipped by rail to Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Bethlehem. Reloading at Toledo...
...cause an appeal for Federal mediation. At Hamilton, Ont., 235 longshoremen struck for a new 50?-per-hour contract. Somewhat alarmed over these signs of the times on the lake front, miners and steelmen in Duluth began considering what had never been considered before-the possibility of shipping iron ore east by rail...