Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dying was the fear that indispensable moves f o ; U. S. defense were warmongering emotionalism: in Portland, Ore., Republican Presidential Candidate Frank Gannett condemned the present...
...Nazi war machine. German airmen tried to strengthen their comrades' failing grip, but massed Allied warships, planes, artillery and foot soldiers on all four sides brought about at last the recapture of snow-clad Narvik, all-but-forgotten Norwegian outlet for Sweden's high-grade iron ore...
...ore railroad threads through tunnels out of Narvik toward the nearby Swedish iron mines. Dynamiting some tunnels shut as they went, the Germans used others as fortresses. They blew up switches, heaped the tracks with wrecked rolling stock, made true Berlin's wry announcement that if lost, the Narvik ore port would be useless to the Allies for a long time to come. At Narvik, the British admitted losing their 4,290-ton anti-aircraft cruiser Curlew, specially armed to shoot down just what finally sank...
Some of his men had surrendered, some had mutinied and crept into Sweden, but Bull Dietl was believed still alive at week's end. He fought on to keep for Germany, besides access to iron ore, an important source of strategic information. From observations made in the Narvik area, Nazi meteorologists make long-range forecasts of western Europe's weather, determined by south-flowing air masses over the Gulf Stream...
Rantoul scholarship to Mahln B. Smith, of Coruallis, Ore...