Word: ores
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...Nebraska farm, George Dern went to the University of Nebraska, played on its championship football team, once had his pants torn completely off in a tackle. Migrating to Utah, he got a job as bookkeeper with a gold mine, learned engineering, helped to invent the Holt-Dern ore roaster. A moneymaker, he bought into banks, power companies, canneries, is today one of Utah's wealthier citizens. As a progressive Democrat, he was elected Governor in 1924, re-elected in 1928. A Congregationalist, he gets on well with the Mormons. His favorite parlor game is "Murder." Once when...
Andrew Jackson was President when the Brothers Cooper, Charles and Elias, went into business at Mt. Vernon, Ohio with a pair of horses as capital. They traded the off horse for equipment to build a small cupola iron foundry, kept the near horse to hoist ore to the top of the cupola. The iron was made into heavy castings for carding machinery, sawmills, farm implements. Last week Cooper-Bessemer Corp., direct descendant of the Coopers' cupola foundry, celebrated its centenary. Nearly submerged in the panic of 1837, the Coopers were prospering in the early 1840's, even built...
...Canada's pitchblende deposits at Great Bear Lake are about ready to produce 1 gm. of radium for 10 tons of ore in six weeks and a score of refining steps (against the Belgian Congo method of 3 mo. and 40 steps). Some 4,000 gm. of radium concentrates are ready for the refinery at Port Hope, Ontario. The Canadian process promises much cheap radium for the world, new wealth for Canada...
...Down a wide lane through the forest he spied a roan antelope, shot it. U. S. copper producers wish he had dropped a rabbit instead. For in its death struggle the antelope kicked up the ground, revealed that the forest lane was caused by a rich vein of copper ore, 200 ft. wide, 10 mi. long, 3,000 ft. deep at the centre. Now owner of the vein is Roan Antelope Copper Mines, Ltd. Six years ago Roan had not been formed. Two years ago it was not producing commercially. When last spring the coppermen of the world decided...
...ENGLISH SPRINGER SPANIEL IN AMERICA-Henry Lee Ferguson-Derrydale Press ($7.50). THE MAIDES TRAGEDY-Beaumont & Fletcher-Cheshire House ($18). NINE PLAYS-Eugene O'Neill-Live-right ($4). THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER-translated by T. E. Shaw-Oxford University Press ($3.50). THE PHYSIOLOGY OF MARRIAGE-Hon-ore de Balzac-Liveright ($2). PLAYS & POEMS OF W. S. GILBERT- Random House ($3.50). RECORDS OF NORTH AMERICAN BIG GAME-edited by Prentiss N. Gray- Derry dale Press ($10). RIDING REFLECTIONS-Piero Santini- Derrydale Press ($10). THE SILVER HORN-Gordon Grand- Derrydale Press ($7.50). TENNIS ORIGINS & MYSTERIES-Malcolm D. Whitman - Derrydale Press ($10). TROILUS...