Word: ores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steel Corp., set a well-manicured finger firmly down on a map of northern Indiana. Said he to his directors: "This will be our metropolis. We'll build near the railroad junction of Chicago where acres of land can be had for almost the asking, midway between the ore regions of the North and the coal lands of the South and East." The Steel directors nodded consent...
...plate plants. Within a year $100,000,000 was dumped into this desolate Indiana waste and out of it by industrial magic rose Gary, great est single steel city in the U. S. A public demonstration occurred in July 1908, when, with the city finished, the first cigar-shaped ore boat nosed its way into Gary Harbor, unloaded its cargo, set the mills to thundering...
Died. Major Jordan Lawrence Mott, 50, grandson of Jordan Lawrence Mott who founded J. L. Mott Iron Works and became Acting Mayor of New York City in 1879; at Steamboat Station, near Roseburg, Ore. Young "millionaire reporter" in 1910 for a succession of Manhattan newspapers, he found journalism "far too dull," ran off to China with an actress, Mrs. Frances Hewitt Bowne. spent the rest of his days boating and writing novels of outdoor life (Prairie, Sea and Snow...
...Seaside, Ore., Jack Bilieu's dog Mike played with children who had the mumps. Last week, to the neighborhood's amazement, glands in Mike's neck and other parts swelled. Dogs can catch the mumps from human beings, can give it to humans. So can cats, goats...
Steel's Voice? As remarkable as the change of crude ore to polished steel has been the mental metamorphosis of President James Augustine Farrell of U. S. Steel Corp. in the past fortnight. Two weeks ago at the American Iron & Steel Institute meeting he spoke in a frank, uncompromising manner which was bearishly received (TIME, June 1). Three days later he made a radio speech telling of prosperity soon to come. At the Council he spoke once more. Waving the Tariff debate aside as "academic," he insisted that commodity prices must rise before recovery, but that "no one contemplating...