Word: ores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Middle Ages are a literary mine whose rich veins are still far from exhausted, are now beginning again to be reworked. Nineteenth Century romancers like Walter Scott and Charles Reade brought up so many tons of ore that the market for a time was overloaded, but the success of such modern miners as Lion Feuchtwanger (Power, The Ugly Duchess) and Alfred Neumann (The Devil) showed a renewing demand. Last week's medieval romance. Dew in April, did not assay nearly so high as Power orThe Devil, but it was much solider stuff than last year's highly touted...
Portland, Ore...
First desperate case to get the Bettman treatment was a Portland, Ore. motor car dealer named Roy Burnett. Ten days after being extensively burned about the head in an accident, Mr. Burnett shaved, in 42 days left the hospital. Dr. Bettman keeps in his office pieces of the leather he peeled from Mr. Burnett's burns...
...Commerce announced that scrap shipments during 1934 had reached an all-time high of 1,835,554 tons against 773,000 tons the year before. Of this total export 1,168,000 tons or 63% had gone to Japan. Italy, which like Japan suffers a shortage of good iron ore, was next biggest buyer with 225,644 tons. Great Britain was third with 134,434 tons...
Calumet & Hecla history goes back to a day before the Civil War when a surveyor named Edwin James Hulbert found a rich vein of copper lode called "conglomerate" because the ore was a cemented mass of pebbles containing pure copper. Hulbert recalled that Boston's famed Naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz had visited the district, showed interest in scattered pieces of conglomerate. Hulbert hastened to Boston, enlisted such glittering names-Higginson, Hunnewell, Livermore, Agassiz, Quincy Adams Shaw, Horatio Bigelow-that his venture became known as the copper company with a Harvard accent. The first shaft was sunk...