Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goods. In Portland, Ore.,.Policewoman Florence Findley released a suspected shop lifter for lack of evidence, discovered that her wallet and badge had been stolen...
...principal mine-operating subsidiary of Dominion Steel & Coal Corp. Ltd. ("Dosco"), which controls 90% of Nova Scotia's coal pro duction, besides the steel plant at Sydney, where iron ore from Newfoundland is reduced...
Cleveland's M. A. Hanna Co. looks like a holding company (it has controlling or substantial interests in steel, coal, rayon and plastics companies), an investment trust (it owns $109 million worth of securities), and an operating company (it has its own fleet of 13 Great Lakes ore freighters, mines its own coal). It is indeed the great what-is-it?-and lean, square-jawed President George M. Humphrey likes it that way. Says he: "If we don't write down the way it's supposed to be, we can do it any way we want...
Humphrey's way is to keep moving. Last week he added a big chunk of new territory to M. A. Hanna's hodgepodge empire. With three of his longtime ore customers (Inland Steel, Armco and Wheeling Steel), Humphrey put together a $15-million syndicate to buy control of Butler Brothers,* which owns five groups of ore mines and large reserves in Minnesota's Mesabi and Cuyuna ranges. Mesabi's high-grade ores are being rapidly depleted, and the deal gave Humphrey's syndicate a fat share of what's left. Butler Brothers annually ships...
What could be done about it? One city -Portland, Ore.-was trying to find out. Marjorie and Kenneth Means had moved from Iowa to take teaching jobs in Portland. They expected they might be lonely for a while, as most new teachers are. They were in for a surprise...