Word: ores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week U. S. Steel announced that it had abandoned large ore reserves in the Lake Superior district. Reason: to avoid taxes. For the first half of the year taxes on all its Lake Superior ore reserves totaled...
...said he plans a short vacation, will then devote himself to "engineering developments." During his work for the Ford Motor Co., Engineer Mayo, a keen-eyed man with big ears and tight lips, has been connected with almost every major development in the company, including the building of dams, ore carriers and the 40-passenger Ford "Pullman" airplane...
While the Assay Office keeps gold & silver, its main business is to test coins and bullion, analyze ore samples for all-comers at a small fee. It is run as a department of the Mint, with headquarters in Manhattan, branches in New Orleans, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Boise, Helena, Carson and Deadwood. Once a year, in the presence of the Director of the Mint, the Assay Commission meets to test samples of U. S. coins. One gold piece out of 1,000 and one silver coin out of 2,000 are selected at random. All incoming foreign coins and bullion...
Within four days, leadership in the Bonus army changed three times. For the third time since he set out from Portland, Ore. two months ago as an unemployed cannery superintendent leading the B. E. F. nucleus, Walter W. Waters resigned his command. Infected by the parliamentary goings-on at Chicago, the idle veterans decided to hold a convention, elect a commander-in-chief. While this agitation was in the air, Commander Waters staged a coup d'état. He and his erstwhile "staff" drove out to muddy Anacostia in the Waters "official car." Mounting a shack, he harangued...
Under the pension plan introduced last year by Myron Charles Taylor, chairman of U. S. Steel Corp.'s finance committee, David G. Kerr, longtime vice president in charge of coal, limestone and ore, retired in favor of Edwin E. Ellis, president of Steel's research subsidiary, Universal Exploration Co. Last fortnight Eugene Jackson Buffington, president, since the resignation of the late Plunger John Warne Gates in 1899, of Illinois Steel Co. (biggest U. S. Steel subsidiary in the Chicago district), stepped aside for his vice president, George Gowen Thorp. Observers marked their retirement as milestones in Chairman Taylor's determined...