Word: ores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President feared that the American Legion Convention meeting in Portland, Ore. would censure him for removing the Bonus Expeditionary Force from Washington last July. Therefore he ordered his Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell to draw up the Administration's justification. On the morning the Legion Convention opened the President published...
Cold Chills. Naval Washington was interested in seeing what Admiral Coontz would do and say as V. F. W. leader but political Washington took the Sacramento meeting with comparative equanimity. Of vastly greater concern to it was the national convention next week at Portland, Ore. of V. F. W.'s big young brother, the American Legion. Would the Legion, with its 936,000 members, also plump for immediate payment of the Bonus? It seemed certain to do so. Would wrathful legionaries also succeed in having the convention censure President Hoover for his treatment of the B. E. F? It seemed...
...industrial activity centered in munitions plants. A new war chemical factory opened in the suburbs. Orders were placed for 500 military automobiles. Airplane factories worked overtime to turn out fighting planes which are being paid for in part by the yen of Japanese schoolchildren. Imports of oil, glycerine, iron ore. U. S. machine tools increased markedly...
...with Keith Gledhill, against Allison and John Van Ryn, U. S. champions. ¶ Fred Tomlin, professional trapshooter of Glassboro. N. J.: the Open Championship in the Grand American trapshooting tournament; with a perfect score of 200 targets at a 16-yd. rise; at Vandalia. Ohio. Frank Troeh of Portland, Ore. won the shoot-off for second place against three other shooters who had tied with...
Because the scrap industry is composed of many small units, the market is free, highly-competitive, peculiarly sensitive to supply & demand. When the steel industry, using more scrap than ore-made pig iron, is in the market for scrap, every dealer knows it; the price responds accordingly. Keen students of business therefore keep their eye on scrap prices to get wind of imminent changes in steel production-keystone of the nation's industrial life. Bullish brokers nodded last week when scrap prices were upped in both the Pittsburgh and Chicago districts. But some of their joy was sapped when...