Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hitler already can get most of the iron ore he needs from occupied countries and Sweden. European Russia has 67% of Russia's iron-ore production, plus gigantic unmined reserves. Just before the war Germany imported about 20,000,000 metric tons of iron ore per year, and the Ukraine reserves alone are estimated at 800,000,000 metric tons...
...Mayor of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. learned Fiorello H. LaGuardia would stop at the city airport en route from Syracuse to New York City, he declared a public holiday. New York City's hedgehopping Mayor flew over the field, circled several times, winged off. ∙ ∙ In Portland, Ore., an empty car rolled away from the curb, rammed a car driven by former Senator Rush Dew Holt of West Virginia...
...plants will be in Massena, N.Y., the Bonneville Dam region, somewhere in Arkansas. In Arkansas Alcoa will also build a plant to produce 400,000,000 lb. a year of alumina (intermediate step between bauxite ore and the finished metal). The plants (cost: $52,000,000) will be operated by Alcoa under a five-year lease. For its managerial services, Alcoa will get a meager 15% of the profits, the Government the rest...
...great flanking sweeps which made the gains possible. A great break-through near Uman, 120 miles south of Kiev, paved the way for the final dash south to the Black Sea. By week's end the Germans claimed to have rolled across the Krivoi Rog iron-ore area, which had supplied 59% of Russia's raw iron, and to have reached the sea east of Odessa and the port of Nikolaev...
...story last week, also from Saguenay, of how most of Canada's aluminum industry had been put out of action for weeks to come. The stoppage occurred at the $150,000,000 Aluminium, Ltd. plant at Arvida which, using cheap water power to process ship-borne bauxite ore from British Guiana, is now turning out enough ingot aluminum for 50,000 airplanes a year, and has become the second biggest single aluminum-production center in the Western Hemi sphere...