Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year. Meanwhile, there was a possibility that, via the Philippines, Japan might circumvent the U. S. embargo on scrap. The U. S. exerts no direct control over Philippine trade, has not included the islands in its embargo. Last year the Philippines produced over 1,000,000 tons of iron ore, sent practically all of it to Japan...
...following are highlights of the first six weeks of Wendell Willkie's campaign tour: 1. At Los Angeles he was hailed by one of the largest political gatherings in history. 2. At San Francisco he said Roosevelt dynamited the 1933 London Economic Conference. 3. At Portland, Ore. he endorsed Grand Coulee and Bonneville Dams. 4. At Pontiac, Mich. he was hit by a ripe tomato. 5. At Coffeyville he wrote "No Third Term-Wendell Willkie...
Economically the French kept Indo-China in swaddling clothes. They had done little with the colony's extensive deposits of iron ore, tin, antimony, wolframite, manganese and zinc. But from the concentrated cultivation of rice and rubber and the sale to the natives of manufactured goods made in France, more than three billion francs went to France from Indo-China every year. The native standard of living remained one of the lowest in the world. The harvest of this policy was hate. A recent straw vote taken in a native high school revealed that, of 300 boys, only...
Married. Sarah Palfrey, 27, 3rd ranking U. S. woman tennist; and Elwood Cooke, 26, 6th ranking U. S. tennist, of Portland, Ore.; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...
...Tulsa, Okla. pupils study a course-unit called "The American Dream"; in New York City's Fieldston School: "What Is the American Tradition?"; in Eugene, Ore.: "Democracy in Action"; in Des Moines, Iowa: "Democracy and Its Competitors...