Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with enforcement of control of foreign commerce. Ruddy, white-haired ex-Congressman John J. Dempsey handles the Commission's business affairs, walks around amid a litter of real-estate deeds, letters from Chambers of Commerce in cities where new yards are building, from Baltimore to Houston to Portland, Ore...
Nancy Merlci, perky 15-year-old Portland, Ore. schoolgirl, who took up swimming five years ago to help recovery from infantile paralysis, kept her 440-yd. freestyle title in the near-record-breaking time...
Present owner of many of the mines (as well as the field's ore mill and railroad) is Golden Cycle Corp. After the town of Cripple Creek was refused a Federal loan to dig a third drainage tunnel, Golden Cycle decided to risk about $2,000,000 of its own money...
...tunnel is 3,300 ft. below ground, will be about 32,000 ft. long; Golden Cycle claims that it will be the longest of its kind ever dug. The company hopes to sell the water for irrigation purposes. New ore discoveries also will foot part of the bill; last month the diggers struck a vein assaying $65 a ton, six times as much as most of the ore now mined from the field...
Horse. In Redmond, Ore., Mechanic Roy Shelton and his small son whisked down the highway in a vintage buckboard behind the most remarkable horse since Pegasus (see cut). It averaged 15 miles an hour, and a gallon of gas was feed enough for a day. Though he never had to shoe his horse, Inventor Shelton confessed it was occasionally necessary to change a tire...