Word: ores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tons in 1925 Africa rose to 160,000 tons in 1930. Katanga, controlled by the Belgian Government, backed by British capital, operating under strictest of colonial regimes, rapidly rose to lead the Africans. U. S. producers have to dig deep when they prospect new veins but Katanga's ore lies so close to the surface they do their prospecting by airplane. Labor costs are on a like scale. A Bantu boy working hard in Katanga's opencut mines gets about $5 a month. Production costs come to about 4?per Ib. African mines can deliver copper in England...
...morning three weeks ago, milk wagon drivers and early risers in Portland, Ore. saw a huge dark marine shape diving about in Columbia Slough, adjacent to the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. "Sportsmen" started shooting at it until Governor Julius L. Meier issued orders against it. By the end of a week the creature had been identified as a small killer whale which had wandered 100 mi. up from the sea. Press & populace named it Ethelbert. The Oregon Humane Society decided Ethelbert would never get back to sea, should be painlessly destroyed by dynamite. Before the dynamiting could...
...Goossens beginning his first; the Seattle Symphony with Karl Krueger. Next week will begin the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Artur Rodzinski, the Minneapolis Symphony with Henri Verbrugghen, the St. Louis Symphony with Vladimir Golschmann, the Milwaukee Philharmonic with Frank Laird Waller. Rochester, N. Y. with different guest conductors, Portland, Ore. (Willem van Hoogstraten), Omaha (Joseph Littau) and Syracuse (Vladimir Shavitch) save their openings for November...
...Legion also voted: to turn its back on the Bonus for the present; to approve the international War debt moratorium; to build the U. S. Navy up to London Treaty size; to oppose disarmament even for purposes of economy; to hold next year's convention at Portland, Ore...
...obscure, mean house in the south-east section of Portland, Ore. lived George Hanna, Syrian-born day laborer who had been unemployed for seven months, his wife Fiena and their seven children. They were poor, had occasionally sought aid from the county public welfare bureau. Some of their neighbors complained that the children were rowdy, but Laborer Hanna was tolerably well content with his home and with the way his wife ran it. In August he saw his home about to be broken up. Upon the complaint of neighbors, Mrs. Elizabeth Neth, assistant chief probation officer of the court...