Word: ores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the American Artists' Congress with over 600 painters and sculptors on its lists opened simultaneous exhibitions in New York. Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Portland, Ore., New Orleans. Largest, most important was that in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center where 300 paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, statues were on view...
...tons of scrap. At the east end of the lake, tugs had cut a channel from Sault Ste. Marie to open water. The wind from the west closed this, packed miles & miles of ice into Whitefish Bay. Clamped fast in the glittering rubble, more than 50 high-riding ore boats westbound from the Soo Canal stayed strung out there for two days, like black beetles stuck in cake frosting. In the Straits of Mackinac 50 miles south the car ferry Chief Wawatan cleared a path of blue water for four freighters, led them across Lake Michigan to Escanaba, returned...
...vacationland provided by Nature on a scale with the prairies of the Mississippi Valley. To U. S. industry their clear water has been for years the cheapest medium in the world for moving freight. The Great Lakes waterway curves southeast 1,000 miles from the greatest sources of iron ore on the continent to the greatest U. S. steelmaking centres. It lies between the richest grainland of North America and the richest consumer population on any seaboard in the world. The tonnage of freight shipped and received at lake ports in 1929 surpassed that of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific...
Iron Ground. In 1844 a surveyor named William A. Burt, plagued by a dipping compass needle, discovered outcroppings of iron ore on Michigan's upper peninsula near Lake Superior. During the next few years prospectors filtered in among the Indians and trappers, word filtered out to Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo of the 30-mile Marquette iron range. Chief problem for interested capital was how to get ships into Lake Superior against the rapids of St. Mary's River. In Congress cold Henry Clay had killed an appropriation for a canal at Sault Ste. Marie, saying it might as well...
...iron and steel, which is now selling at about $23 per ton, more than 50% above the price a year ago and the highest quotation since 1923; and sending up the price of domestic steel production. In steelmaking, scrap is as important a source of raw material as iron ore. So heavy is the movement of scrap to U. S. seaports that many a railroad has had to refuse further shipments until their yards are cleared of present congestion...