Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When World War II broke, Promoter Reynolds was convinced that there would be an aluminum shortage. Eleven months later he got his first RFC loan, now translated into a 40,000,000-lb. plant at Lister Ala., which will start reducing bauxite (aluminum ore) next week. Reynolds also is starting on a 60,000,000-lb. plant in the lumbermill town of Longview, Wash., where Bonneville will furnish power aplenty. Now Reynolds is confident that his 100,000,000-lb. output (by next July) plus Alcoa's 690,000,000 will take care of defense needs, adds...
...Minnie Hill of Portland, Ore., was the first woman west of the Mississippi to be licensed by the U. S. Bureau of Marine Inspection & Navigation. She obtained her ticket in 1886, and for many years thereafter was master of the steamer Governor Newell on the Columbia River...
Concentration of gold (if any) in horsetail ash will be far higher than in the soil it sprouted from. Hence it is practical in some cases to harvest and replant horsetail weed over low-grade surface ore fields rather than mine them. And seed selection may breed a still more efficient horsetail. At present a ton of horsetail from low-grade gold fields will yield as much as 4½ oz. of gold, worth $157.50. Value of a ton of good timothy...
...America's iron ore reserves are running...
Thus Göring cannot be called the world's richest man. But he is certainly Europe's, probably the world's, most potent industrialist. Last month the Hermann Göring Works was reorganized under three sub-holding companies: one for mines and ore refining, one for arms and machine production, one for shipping and inland waterways. But the full range of its products (among them: synthetic oil, guns, turbines, textiles, typewriters, tanks, ships) is a Nazi secret...