Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deep borehole in a cornfield near the dusty little village of Odendaalsrus, southwest of Johannesburg on the Free State's sandy veld. A Canadian engineer, G. W. Hicks, employed by Diamond Tycoon Sir Ernest Oppenheimer's Western Holdings and Blinkpoort companies, brought up the diamond-drilled ore core. It assayed 62.6 oz. of gold to the ton-33 times as rich as the phenomenally prosperous Blyvooruitzicht mine, 120 times better than Canada's best...
...Matter of Timing. Superficially, nationalization of Britain's steel looked easy,, A few big firms employed most of the half million workers. But those firms had grown into huge vertical combines, in which it would be difficult to divorce ownership of vast iron-ore mines, limestone quarries, brickworks, diesel-engine works, nut-&-bolt plants. Just what parts of the steel industry did Wilmot propose to nationalize...
...Done. In Portland, Ore., Robert Kuhn advertised in the Oregon Journal: "Veteran, wife, 10 dogs, 3 female cats, alligator, desire small furn. apt. We drink, smoke, stay up all night beating kettledrums." He got 25 offers...
...last week Lieut. Redin seemed like a stranger all over again. He had been arrested on a Portland, Ore. pier, dressed in a sweatshirt and grey slacks, just as he was getting aboard the Soviet Steamship Alma Ata. The FBI had arrested him as a spy. He had been under "intensive observation" for months, said the FBI, which charged that he had "induced another to obtain plans, documents and writings relating to the Yellowstone, a U.S. destroyer tender." The information, it added, "was to be used to the advantage of a foreign nation, to wit: the U.S.S.R...
...Atlanta, Denver, Chicago, Portland, Ore., San Francisco, Indianapolis, men traipsed in & out of branch offices of the U.S. Employment Service and Veterans Administration-griping at the red tape, the delays in paying claims, the poor job offers and the stuffiness of bureaucracy. It burned them up when "Major So-and-So," now in civvies, interviewed them. "You wouldn't catch me calling myself T/3 Smith the rest of my life," sniffed ex-T/3 Smith...