Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then came World War II and with it a British-French blockade of German ports, German-Spanish trade dwindled. Oranges piled up on Valencia's docks, the iron ore of the Basque littoral could no longer be shipped to Hamburg. Generalissimo Franco, although holding Britain and France responsible for this "absurd" war, agreed to talk trade. For three months Frenchmen and Spaniards dickered. Once France broke off negotiations, said that ungrateful Spain did not realize the extent of her concessions. Spain retaliated by closing her border to what little trade had been allowed to cross the French frontier...
...France will go Spanish oranges, Spanish Moroccan iron ore, pyrites, mercury, lead, zinc. In exchange Spain will get French Moroccan wheat, phosphates, barley, manufactured goods. The trade, expected to reach a volume valued at 650,000,000 francs in a few months, will be balanced. A British-Spanish trade pact providing for much greater trade is expected to follow. With that concluded, Spain's commerce will return to the prewar trade status and Generalissimo Franco's Government, despite its ideological sympathies with the Nazis, will find its commercial interests with the Allies...
...Commercial Solvents' plant at Peoria, Ill, every ten days or so this year, for some $200,000. But the ultimate possibilities of the precedent are much bigger. If I. C. C. authorizes a rate that gets blackstrap out of barges, it may also fix similar rates for iron ore, lumber, coal, sugar, cottonseed oil - and a rate that keeps oil out of pipelines. At I. C. C. hearing Shell Oil Co., Inc. (subsidiary of Shell Union Oil Corp. with millions of dollars invested in pipelines) argued against trainload rates. Biggest squawk may come from roads which fear barge competition...
...share of freight traffic. For some years roads have been combatting truck competition by resuming an old practice of running "redball" (fast) freights, freeing the tracks for them and sending them as much as 500 miles in a night. During 1939: Union Pacific began to run one from Portland, Ore. to Boise, Idaho, another from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City, another from Denver to Kansas City. Southern Pacific started trains running overnight to Yuma and Phoenix, Ariz, from Los Angeles, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe scheduled redball freights from Chicago to Texas in 24 hours, Chicago to Kansas City overnight...
...freighter City of Flint, tempest teapot of the war's sixth week, when she was taken captive by Germany, later freed from a Nazi prize crew by Norway, sailed at last out of Narvik for home with a cargo of iron ore. Leaving the harbor in a fog, she whanged into a British freighter, had to put back to repair damaged plates...