Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was last February. In March U.S. G-men in Portland, Ore. arrested a young Russian naval officer, Nikolai Redin, for spying. Next month Moscow police called Ruess, who had almost forgotten the Army Day episode, and summoned him to court. The charge: khuliganstvo (hooliganism...
Canada's International Nickel Co. Ltd., and its subsidiaries own 90% of the world's nickel ore; they supply 90% of U.S. nickel needs. Come good times or bad, the price of nickel, 35? a pound, has not changed in 18 years. In the same period even monopolistic Alcoa dropped the price of aluminum from 24? to 14?. Last week the U.S.' Government, despite pressure from the Canadian Government, finally took note of this...
...using the forked stick, seems to have started in 16th-Century Germany. Even educated men like Melanchthon believed that the twigs of trees above mineral veins drooped downward, attracted by the deposit below. Miners in the Harz Mountains put this principle to hopeful use, searching for minerals with forked, ore-seeking twigs...
...cold, desolate subArctic where temperatures fall sometimes to 60° below zero. Traces of gold were first discovered there in 1898. But fur-trapping was the area's No. 1 business until, one fall day in 1934, Prospectors C. J. Baker and H. M. Muir found high-grade ore on the shore of Yellowknife Bay. Then the gold rush...
...been asked to appropriate $1 million for high-purity graphite, heavy water and other pile materials. No uranium had been mined as yet, but fairly large deposits had been found in central Sweden. They were low grade, containing less than half a pound of uranium per ton of ore. Swedish uranium would be expensive, but cost might be no barrier if richer deposits in luckier countries were kept away from the open market...