Word: ores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...1860s August Thyssen (pronounced tissen) started his steel business in a cow house outside Mulheim, in the Ruhr Valley, making hoop-iron at first. In 50 years he came to own coal fields in the Ruhr and iron-ore concessions in Lorraine and Northern France, and to employ 25,000 workers. When he died in 1926 at 84 he left an estate worth more than...
...Vereinigte Stahlwerke, the gigantic German steel trust, was formed. Herr Thyssen headed this organization, which controlled 75% of Germany's iron-ore production and 50% of coal-mine output and which listed among its properties 33,000 acres of mines and factories, a 1,200-mile railway system, 14 private ports, 209 electric power stations, numerous cement factories, and tenements housing 60,000 employes' families. His total number of employes rose to 200,000. Fritz Thyssen's personal share of the property was 26%, valued at some...
...session-end of the last Congress, leaders in both parties pledged to stay in Washington to counsel with the President. To all but one Mr. Roosevelt said in effect: Go on home if you want. Airplanes are always handy. But to Charles Linza McNary of Salem, Ore., Republican leader in the Senate, Franklin Roosevelt said: Stay here. Since then wise, weary Charlie McNary has constantly counseled with the President, breakfasts at the White House sometimes thrice a week, always entering from the Treasury side to dodge reporters. To the President Charles McNary has given many pieces of his mind...
...surprised the tennis world by suspending from amateur competition pending a hearing two of its most famed players: square-headed Gene Mako, doubles partner of Donald Budge on three Davis Cup teams, and ornery Wayne Sabin, ninth in world ranking this year. Sabin, son of a Portland, Ore. house painter, played in 25 tournaments in the past twelve months...
...produces only at the rate of 1,200 tons a year, Argentinian production is only about 1,700 tons a year. U. S. peacetime needs are 6-7,000 tons a month (current needs: 7-12,000 tons). In 1929, at their peak, Bolivian mines were able to produce ore equivalent to only 55% of U. S. tin needs. Main precaution against a tin famine remains the stockpile...