Word: ores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that 25% of the investment in power houses and transmission lines is idle and is piling up fixed charges. . . ." He further recognized that the nation's power surplusage would soon be increased by Federal and State power projects at Muscle Shoals, Cove Creek, Boulder Dam, Bonneville Dam (Ore.), Grand Coulee Dam (Wash...
...week to settle its score against United Air Lines. In 40 million miles of flying, no passenger had been killed in a multi-motored plane of United until last month when a ship was blown up on the New York-Chicago route (TIME, Oct. 23).* Last week near Portland, Ore. another United plane of the same new type crashed into a hillside in a fog. Pilot and three passengers were killed. Copilot, stewardess and four passengers survived...
...Willamette River, when the ship took off for its run down the coast to San Francisco. Among the passengers was Dr. Robert Calvin Coffey, Portland surgeon famed for his work with cancer.† Across from him sat his assistant, Dr. John Straumfjord, with whom he was flying to Medford, Ore. to operate on a colleague. Leaving the airport the pilot circled gingerly up through the fog, edging perilously near the hills which rise abruptly to the west. Suddenly a wing tip gouged a tree on the hilltop. Down the ship crashed. It broke apart, caught fire. In an instant Stewardess...
...surgeons wanted impressed on everyone. Dr. Robert Battey Greenough of Boston, who later in the week was elected 1934 president of the College, presided over the symposium on cancer, in which 30 eminent surgeons shared. One of the best attention-holders was Dr. Robert Calvin Coffey of Portland.* Ore., a swarthy, beetling man who was called upon to describe his famed system of draining the kidneys through the intestines in cases where the bladder is diseased. Dr. Coffey also described his system of "surgical quarantine." When he operates on a diseased abdomen he blocks off healthy organs with sheets...
...Iowa's State Agricultural College. With no newspaper experience he bought and edited the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, made money on the side from mines, steel mills, realty. Wiped out in the panic of 1893, he went to the Orient to recoup, spotted a chance in Korea where rich ore deposits were being crushed by hand, got concessions, sent for U. S. machinery. First to grow cotton in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, he unfolded one evening at the White House dinner table a glowing description of African big-game hunting which resulted in Theodore Roosevelt's famed expedition...