Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Professor Mather, the world need have little worry regarding its supply of every kind of natural resources for "several thousands of years"--even if a tremendous expansion of our economy should take place, as seems highly probable. All the basic essentials of life--energy, ore deposits, vegetable fibers, and food--will be available in adequate supplies for everyone on the earth, with only the one essential requirement that world "interdependence is inescapable...
Inexperienced. In Los Angeles, a young miss, on a vacation from Seaside, Ore., as a reward for not smoking until her 21st birthday, threw a cigaret butt out of a bedroom window, started a brush fire...
...outraged by the deal, gave him the claim and made him pay the bill. That was how, at the turn of the century, cholo Simón I. Patiño got into the tin business. For years, he and his sinewy wife wielded picks, hauled up buckets, smashed ore. By 1910, they were rich...
Actually, the stuff is pretty easy to find. A just-published booklet (Handbook oj Uranium Minerals by Jack DeMent and H. C. Dake, Mineralogist Publishing Co., Portland, Ore., $1.50) makes it sound as if anyone could go prospecting...
Wrap It Up. Sackett got into the newspaper business at eight, with a product printed on wrapping paper in Sheridan, Ore., has been fascinated by it ever since...