Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Osborn's career. He has intermittently owned, edited and sold three small-town newspapers. A prospector and geologist of renown, he discovered the rich Moose Mountain iron range in Canada, the Kiruna and Luossavara deposits in Lapland, others in Africa, the Orient, Latin America. From sales of iron ore and timber lands, he has given nearly all of his millions away (to relatives, friends, deserving strangers, schools, churches, etc.). Says he: "It just happened that I was a moneymaker. . . . Why shouldn't I give it away?" He wrote a book about how the firefly lights up. He hunted...
...hopeful country to the cynical city of New York. In eleven and a half days he had traveled 7,500 miles, appeared on the rear platform of his train at 48 Western stations, made 36 impromptu station platform speeches (three of them in snowstorms, and one, in La Grande, Ore...
...delivered ten formal addresses, held eleven big press conferences, appeared at ten scheduled receptions, and shaken hands with 15,000 voters. He had collected two ten-gallon hats, a case of canned corn, had watched the dance of the Nez Percé Indians and had been serenaded in Portland, Ore., by a fife & drum corps of Civil War veterans whose leader was 95. His secretary, yclept Lemoyne Jones in the effete East, became plain Lem Jones as soon as he was west of the mountains. Like all Presidential candidates, Candidate Dewey came back with fine words...
...method of exploring for metal-bearing ores, described last week at the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers, is based on the discovery that plants growing over a metallic ore body contain more of the metal in their tissue than plants growing elsewhere. To smoke out hidden ores, leaves and bushes are burned to ash, and the ash is examined under spectroscopes for significantly high metallic content...
...Efficiency Expert Viskniskki has worked for were (and still are) ailing may be debated. As to Portland's 89-year-old Oregonian, it may be remarked, however, that whereas the Colonel found it a journal of distinction, it is today just another damned daily paper. SlLVANUS KlNGSLEY Portland, Ore...