Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consequences abroad. It was the brain-child of Utah's Senator Reed Smoot, a Mormon Apostle, and of Oregon's Willis Chatman Hawley, a slow-witted, powerful man, once a champion woodcutter in Oregon, who had risen from the post of principal of Umpqua Academy at Wilbur, Ore. to the chairmanship of the House Ways & Means Committee...
Last February, in St. Petersburg, Fla., died Apostle Reed Smoot, still isolationist, still bitter at Cordell Hull's reciprocal trade agreements, which partially nullified the still-existing Smoot-Hawley Act. And last week, in Salem, Ore., death came to Willis Hawley, 77, the Oregon axman who had helped chop down the economic foundations of the world...
...steel industry, Japan is 88% dependent on imports of iron ore, pig iron, scrap. In 1936 (last year Japan printed statistics on metals) she imported 6,000,000 tons from the U.S., Britain, the Philippines, Malaya, China...
...Billy Rose is taking time out from flesh spectacles, putting his aquacade profits behind a triangle play by Clifford Odets. ∙∙ Press-Agentry of the Week: In Hollywood Charlie McCarthy, honorary sergeant in the Air Corps, was ordered court-martialed for accepting a Marine appointment. In Portland, Ore., he was signed to guest-conduct the Portland Stadium Orchestra...
...first Plan was to build a base of heavy industry far from dangerous European borders. Around the biggest coal deposit in the world, in the Kuznetsk Basin in mid-Siberia, mines were opened, steel mills built. The huge magnetic iron-ore mountain at Magnitogorsk in the Urals got other mills. A tractor and rifle factory went up at Chelyabinsk near...