Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years elapse since that "emergency" project first hit the headlines, had almost forgotten there was such a thing in prospect. If it is really going to stand on its own feet after the war it will have to be a wonder of low-cost smelting efficiency, for the Bolivian ore it will handle is strictly grade B, and the British-Dutch tin cartel is no mean competitor...
These receiving the highest honor degree Harvard can confer were: Benjamin B.Landing, Jr., South Bend, Ind., (Biology); Melvin Fields, Muncie, Ind, (Chemistry); Donald J. Patton, Cortaro, Ariz., (Geological Sciences); Jack M. Peterson, Portland, Ore. (Physics); Judson T. Shapliy, Reading, Pa., (Anthropology); and Keith R. Symon, Terre Haute, Ind., (Philosophy and Mathematics...
Baseball fans in Portland, Ore. got a hot earful one night recently when they tuned in on little KWJJ ("The Voice From Broadway") for the nightly roundup of baseball scores. What they heard was an indignation meeting held in disregard of the U.S. Censor's caution against "man in the street" programs. Its purport: that Portland police are too bloody rough...
Possibly because he comes from Portland, Ore., where the winters are rainy, Darrel Austin paints an imaginary world of endless oozy swamps and puddles, peopled with perky-looking animals and wraithlike beings half submerged in pools of water. His colors, laid on the canvas with a palette knife instead of a brush, are notable for their limpid transparency and eerie phosphorescence...
Pronounced overweight at the first examination, he shed 36 lb. in a month, got down to 200. Newly-commissioned Major Alvin York began thinking of running for Congress. Lew Ayres, reclassified to 1-A-O (noncombatant work), left the conscientious objectors' camp at Wyeth, Ore., to report for duty with an Army Medical Corps unit. This work, said he, was "just what I've always wanted to do." He emphasized that his c.o. ideas remained unchanged...