Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Closing the Bank. But if it was Britain that was broke, why was the conference in Washington? Why not in London? The conferees hoped that the answer to that question would be grasped from Portland, Me. to Portland, Ore. For in the world of 1947, Britain's predicament, no matter what its cause, was of as much concern to the U.S. as to Britain herself. Out of self-interest, if for no other reason, the U.S. could not afford...
Senator Homer Ferguson's War Investigating subcommittee, digging into the wartime contracts of Millionaire Plane-builder Howard Hughes, had turned up some gaudy ore. It glittered with headline names, beautiful girls, fantastic expense accounts (TIME, Aug. 4). Last week, the committee went deep into one of the abandoned mine shafts of history, guided by big-time World War II administrators and brasshats and-somewhat unwillingly-by a Hollywood pressagent and a President's son. It found more ore...
...Portland, Ore., the Colonial Mortuary offered a new super deluxe service: sound recordings of funeral services as keepsakes for the bereaved...
...Angeles' 133,000 Negro population has more than doubled since 1940. Between 1930 and 1945, New York's Negro population has increased 67% (to 547,000); Chicago's by 50% (to 350,000); San Francisco's by 741% (to 32,000). In Portland, Ore., Negroes increased from...
...mine uranium-bearing pitchblende, the Russians are using tens of thousands of Germans, draftees (i.e., slaves) and volunteers. This week from Leipzig an A.P. correspondent reported on the primitive conditions under which the pitchblende miners work in the Erz Gebirge (ore mountains) of Saxony. They carry the pitchblende to the surface in crude buckets attached to winches. In one shaft workers must climb up & down a 500-ft. ladder. The whole area is under heavy guard. Once in the mine area, even volunteer miners may not leave. The pitchblende is flown direct from Saxony to the Soviet Union...