Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sufficient supply were only a matter of extracting aluminum from bauxite ore, Mr. Stettinius would not have had to hedge so carefully. Raw aluminum is just the starter: the basic metal must be alloyed, then shaped into different sheets, forgings, castings, etc. for each of aluminum's thousand-&-one uses. Aluminum Co. of America thus may have to supply one kind of tubing for an airplane wing strut, another for the landing gear, yet another for the rudder. Up to now the company has borne this cross with profit and equanimity, has also managed to retain its corner...
Died. Carrie Belle Adams, 81, retired organist of Portland, Ore.'s First Congregational Church, most prolific U. S. composer of anthems (4,000); in Portland...
...time the Great Lakes opened for ore traffic last March, steelmen had made their forecast of the year's demand by letting the price of ore crack (the cracker: Henry Ford) for the first time in steel history. A month later, they dropped the price of steel by $4 a ton too. Their hope was to stay above their break-even point of 55% of capacity. By November they were not only at 96% of capacity, but confronted by an unfamiliar shortage in their coke and ore supplies. They even found themselves accused of not having capacity enough...
Last week roly-poly (200 lb., 5 ft. 8 in.) Harry Gokey, 71,. retired vaudeville trouper, made his bid for No. 1 U. S. professional Santa by booking a round of Clausing (at $5 to $25 an appearance) in Portland, Ore. private homes and clubs. It was his 51st consecutive season in the business. Since his first appearance in a window of The Fair (Chicago department store) in the bitter winter of 1890, Claus Gokey has earned $15,000 at his jocular sideline. He has also acquired a high scorn for the thousands of street-corner and department-store Santas...
Retailers even expanded their plants. In Manhattan, on the site of Flo Ziegfield's first Follies, the Bond clothing chain opened its 60th men's store (largest in the U. S.), set in motion a 26,000-suit assembly line. Same week, in Portland, Ore., Fred Meyer opened his tenth "unit" (which sells everything from groceries to Opening" that included cake-baking contests, daily vaudville, dog shows, a Ferris wheel, a free suckling pig, and eight performing lions, Merchandiser Meyer attracted 100,000 visitors in six days...