Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paroled for a six-month probationary period to her sister, Mrs. John Quigley, of Nyssa, Ore., Lyda had no immediate plans. Declaring that Lyda "embroiders divinely," Mrs. Quigley suggested that she might set her sister up in a fancywork shop. Mrs. Quigley did not suggest a restaurant...
Sensitive to the grinding strain of the nation's economy, the Cabinet that had sponsored the negotiations hoped desperately that the U.S. might grant Japan an eleventh-hour reprieve. Squeezed now by the Allied embargo on scrap iron and iron ore (she imports two-thirds of her steel industry's raw materials), and on oil (she imports 93% of her oil), Japan also faced an extraordinarily poor rice harvest, a subnormal fishing catch...
...abundant manganese deposits, but nearly all of them are low-grade and many of them contain the mineral in the wrong form for easy separation: manganese dioxide. But two new processes developed by the U.S. Bureau of Mines are on the point of making low-grade manganese oxide ore a useful citizen of steel metallurgy. Last week in three new pilot plants at Boulder City, Nev., where oxide ore beds adjoin Boulder Dam's cheap electricity, manganese's first citizenship papers were being signed...
Seldom has the U.S. produced more than 1% of its manganese needs. High point was a war-inspired 300,000 tons in 1918, chiefly from now run-down oxide beds in Colorado. By 1934 ore production shriveled to 853 tons. It is now about 100,000 tons-10% of a year's needs-mostly turned out from carbonate by an Anaconda Copper subsidiary in Butte, Mont...
...last week 14 new merchant ships slid down U.S. ways, in shipyards from Quincy, Mass, to Portland, Ore. It was the record single-day launching since World...