Word: ores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Salem, Ore., went Senate GOP Chief Charles Linza McNary; House GOP Chief Joseph William Martin studied timetables to Hawaii; House Democrat Chief Sam Rayburn headed home to his beloved shorthorn cattle in Bonham, Texas. By mutual agreement the leaders decided that events did not justify their remaining in Washington to counsel with Franklin Roosevelt as had been promised when the special session assembled...
...steel company managements, which have nursed along their expanding, profitable West Coast market (where the asking price is generally the sales price), no proposal could be more harebrained. They object that such plants would duplicate existing facilities, that no large deposits of coking coal or iron ore exist on the West Coast to make such an industry logical. The cost of hauling raw materials would, they insist, make West Coast steel more expensive than East Coast steel plus delivery charges...
...last week at the White House that demand for Bonneville power is currently twice its output.) Instead of coal (used in blast furnaces for iron-making, in open hearth furnaces for steel), West Coast steel plants would depend on electric furnaces fueled by new Bonneville generators to process iron ore (or scrap) directly into steel. A January 1938 War Department publication noted that stainless and other special electrolitic steels for war purposes are "peculiarly adapted for production in the Pacific Coast low cost power areas...
...more difficult iron ore problem, Army engineers discuss several alternatives...
...Chilean ore-at Sparrows Point, Md. Bethlehem Steel takes ores in from Cruz Grande, Chile (4,265 miles away) at a freight cost of $2.50 to $3.00 per ton, plus Panama Canal tolls of $7.20; since no toll need be paid on Chilean ore laid down in Portland (5,739 miles from Cruz Grande), it should be cheaper there...