Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Extraction. In Portland, Ore., a shopper popped out her false teeth, let them lie. Reason: she refused to lose her place in the nylon queue...
Sawdust Trail. In Medford, Ore., Army Lieut. Hugh Collins' parrot Snafu, sent to jail for habitual bad language, turned over a new leaf, croaked snatches of old-time Gospel hymns...
...Labrador Mining & Exploration Co. got a concession to 18,000 square miles in the Labrador ore fields. Three years later big, rich Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines, Ltd., of Ontario, took over and began exploring both sides of the border...
...company flew in diamond drills and other equipment at a cost of 73? a pound for shipping, spent $10 million just prospecting. Last May its chief geologist, Dr. J. A. Retty, cautiously reported progress: nine finds of high-grade iron ore bodies in Labrador, 15 in Ungava. Said the trade journal Northern Miner: "The most important iron ore discovery in America since the finding of the Mesabi range...
Dead Weight. In Portland, Ore., a thief politely offered to hold a woman's heavy shopping bag for a moment, craftily ran off with it, found it contained a dead...