Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decades India's chief exports have remained the same (cotton, jute, oilseeds, tea, tobacco). Yet India has iron-ore reserves three-fourths the size of U.S. deposits, huge reserves of coal, manganese, bauxite and many other minerals. Despite this raw wealth, Indian steel production, even under the spur of war, is under 1% of world production. India has a hydroelectric potential second only to that of the U.S., but only 3% is used...
...booby trap. The booby trap is a guerrilla's stock in trade. "You can exercise your schoolboy malice and ingenuity," suggests Mr. Levy. "Hang Mills bombs on doors so that they explode when the doors are opened. Put one in the refrigerator. . . ." In Tillamook, Ore., last week, residents were organizing a Guerrilla Club. Chief organizer: Stewart P. Arnold, blind vet eran of World...
...years Dermatologist Thomas W. Ross of Portland, Ore. has used silk stockings as emergency bandages to hold dressings in place. They were cool, comfortable, easy to apply and clean. A month ago he suggested that the women of the U.S. save their silk stockings for first-aid work instead of throwing them away when they got runs...
...magnesium program was to enlist a new process that uses less power than present electrolytic methods: ferrosilicon. Pulverized and mixed with calcined dolomite (a common magnesium ore), the ferrosilicon reduces the ore in a vacuum, and magnesium of high purity results. Henry Ford, Union Carbide & Carbon and Canada's Dominion Magnesium Co. have been experimenting with the process for three years. All three will share in the new manufacturing program. So, using this or their own process, will American Metal Co., National Lead Co., Permanente Metals Corp., Dow Chemical (at present the only volume producer of magnesium), Mathieson Alkali...
Handles. In Portland, Ore., two autos had a brush in traffic. The drivers: Vernal Forrest and Sylvan Woods. In Dothan, Ala., Private Harvard Yale Princeton reported for duty. In Washington, Earl Wedding sued for divorce...