Word: ores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than $79,000,000. Furthermore, the entire increase was accounted for in an item called "Discovered Increment." Little light was shed on the subject by a footnote explaining that "Discovered Increment" had been revalued by application of the "Hoskold Formula." What happened was that Climax simply wrote up its ore reserves by some $70,000,000. Formerly carried at what amounted to a nominal $3,600,000, the Climax reserves are by all odds the world's largest. And Climax produces three-fourths of the world's molybdenum...
...confused with Manhattan's James Butler Grocery Co., which last week offered to sell its 483 stores to their 483 managers, or with St. Paul's Butler Brothers, one of the few remaining independent iron mining companies in the U. S. Operating in Minnesota's ore-laden Mesabi and Guyana Ranges, this Butler Brothers was founded by five sons of an Irish immigrant father. The sixth son is U. S. Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler...
...Oberlin College he heard his chemistry professor say that fortune awaited the man who found a way to make aluminum cheaply. The story is that Charles nudged his neighbor, whispered: "I'm going after that metal." He hit on the idea of finding a solvent for the oxide ore, bauxite, then electrolyzing the solution, sending oxygen to one electrode, pure aluminum to the other. After graduation he cooked indefatigably in his back yard, trying dozens of solvents in vain. His crucibles were shaky, his batteries uncertain. Finally he found that electrically melted cryolite, a mineral from Greenland, would dissolve...
...Frank Akin, a Portland, Ore. public accountant, was found shot dead in his apartment. Two days later one Mark M. Israel, a Portland jeweler and loan broker who had employed Akin to audit his accounts, gave police and a Portland Oregonlan reporter a sensational clue which he said Akin had confided to him. His story was that Akin had had a mistress who had frequently threatened to kill...
...composed. It is published in sheet form and she would like to sell the copies for 25 or 35? each in order to get money for medical supplies. Her friends will help mail them out if those interested will send their orders to Mrs. O. Feigum, Sweet Home, Ore...