Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...landed at Portland, Ore. in 1893, worked to put himself through grammar school in Portland, through high school in Oakland and through law school at the University of Oregon, from which he took his LL.B...
Geographically, the Seaway is the biggest of all New Deal enterprises. In the 2,351 miles between the grain elevators and ore docks of Duluth and the broad mouth of the St. Lawrence, the inland waters drop 602 feet, roar over rapids, dodge many an island. The Seaway project would make these waters a marine highway at least 27 feet deep, so that ocean vessels could sail from Lake ports to the whole maritime world. This would require at least 18 big locks, many canals, much dredging. Estimated cost, including facilities already built: $379,252,000-about the cost...
...Government for Lithuania. If the Germans could quickly sew up the Baltic littoral, they would not only have developed the northern arm of the master pincers; they would also have deprived Russia of bases for her large fleet of submarines, which might prove embarrassing to the German flow of ore from Sweden...
...subject to long-delayed final approval by the Office of Production Management, the U.S. appeared about to get two new plants which would increase its sorely needed aluminum output by 7% (60,000,000 lb. a year). Most notable fact about these plants: they will use no bauxite, the ore which (reduced by Alcoa's Hall process) has been the source of all U.S. aluminum up to now. Instead, they will use alunite, a grey-white mineral...
...worth $6, as byproducts. Moreover, alunite-aluminum uses less electricity than Hall-produced aluminum. Kalunite hopes to borrow up to $16,000,000 from RFC to build two plants in Marysvale, Utah, perhaps a third in Washington's White River Valley. Both sites are near supplies of alunite ore, also not too far from titanic Grand Coulee, which could supply the juice...