Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert Treat Paine fellowship to Robert F. Bales, of Wallowa, Ore...
Kenneth Hay Kingdon and H. C. Pollock of the General Electric laboratories had isolated small amounts of U-235. But costly, slow and tedious, the method of isolation employs the mass spectrometer the uranium ore is vaporized in a tiny electric furnace, then electrified, and the isotopes are separated and sorted by weight in a magnetic field. The rate of isolating U-235 is one ten-billionth of a pound per hour. It is generally agreed that at least a pound would be needed for practical power experiments. By this method a pound would take about 11,000 centuries...
...Portland, Ore., the Rev. Henry Guy Goodsell (Methodist): "We can't be neutral. ... I think we should preserve the status quo . . . I'm not the simon-pure pacifist I used...
Adolf Hitler deemed Narvik important enough, as the main outlet for Swedish iron ore, to spend one-third of his destroyers trying to secure it. From conquered southern Norway his ground troops now pushed northward towards the battered iron port. Nazi parachute troops appeared at Mo, more than halfway up the coast highway from Namsos to Bodo, beyond which 47 miles of road end in trackless mountains stretching another 87 crow-line miles to Narvik. They were hurried ahead to cut off a Norse contingent and some 300 remnant British who, retreating north from Namsos, delayed the Nazi column...
Even more impressive than the art were the spectacular views from Maryhill's windows of eastern Oregon, the Columbia gorge, Mount Hood and the Cascade Mountains. One hundred miles from Portland, Ore., Roadbuilder Hill's castle can be approached only over the fine winding Northwestern highways he himself helped construct, is probably the world's most isolated art museum...