Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...type. They also point out, however, that the U.S. has a back door through the Canadian wilderness direct to the vital Minnesota iron mines which furnish the raw material for half the world's supply of steel, to the Sault Ste. Marie locks through which passes all the ore, to Niagara Falls which supplies 37% of New York's hydro electric power. Whether the U.S. can be repeatedly bombed via the back door depends on sea-lane control which alone can keep the enemy from establishing nearby provision bases...
...Exceptions: extra fares and 1¼?-per-mile fare for servicemen on furlough would be unchanged; coal, coke and ore rates would rise only a few cents...
...Portland, Ore., Jim Zilka, golfer, made a hole in one. His father, Henry, would have made a hole in one if his ball had not struck his son's, and bounced...
Duties. In Toledo, Ore., Paul Wallace got his draft call the day he enlisted in the Navy. The draft board deferred him, the Navy ordered him to report for duty, then the Army reconsidered, ordered him to report 16 days before his date with the Navy...
Scrap and Iron Ore. From 1936 to 1940 she got from the U.S. 8,222,259 tons of scrap; none since Sept. 30, 1940. For iron ore she depended mostly on imports too. Japan is now confiscating manhole covers, gutter pipes, name plates, old railway cars to build her scrap stockpile...