Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...direction of price rises. The industry, the basic price barometer for durable goods, wanted to give no aid to the return of OPA. But bituminous coal prices had gone up an average of 40½? a ton a fortnight ago as part of the coal strike settlement. Ore prices edged up. So did pig iron. In Birmingham, two plants boosted prices $3 a ton. Scrap dealers were tightly hanging on to their scrap for the expected big boost and an acute shortage was in the making. The pattern of price increases among suppliers was plain; Pittsburgh gossiped that certain types...
...except for certain basic commodities such as products of agriculture, slag, gravel, etc. on which the boost was only 3%. To make up for their lower rate of earnings, Eastern railroads were allowed a further increase of 5% on all but anthracite and bituminous coal, lignite and iron ore...
...suitable for bombs would be strategically distributed, so that no one nation could gain an advantage by seizing ADA's supplies and installations within its own borders. The Acheson planners concluded that it would be almost impossible for any nation to hide a complete bomb-making process from ore mine to finished weapon, or even to "re-nature" enough denatured material, in secret, to accumulate a dangerous supply...
Reckoning. In Portland, Ore., Carl Peterson sent the city a $6.80 bill for repairs on his windshield wiper, thrice damaged by thumb-handed cops tucking parking tickets under...
Christian Front. In Portland, Ore., Ansell Durell admitted plundering $1,000 from the Christmas mails, gave Judge McColloch his reason: he needed money to pursue his studies for the ministry...