Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world rife with many injustices, it is hard to single out any one as being worse than another, yet the action of a Hood, Ore. American Legion Post in erasing from the town's honor roll the names of 16 Japanese-American servicemen seems to me particularly blameworthy (TIME...
...erase their names without cause, other than the accident of birth and race, reduces our honor rolls to an array of meaningless painted boards. To the American Legion Post of Hood, Ore., three hearty Bronx cheers! EVANGELINE S. McALLISTER (The Sage Hen) Bayard...
...Hood River, Ore. (pop. 3.280), American Legionnaires daubed paint on their servicemen's honor roll to obliterate the names of 16 Nisei soldiers...
Mere driblets came from mines in South Dakota and New Mexico. Most of the U.S. supply was flown in from Brazil, with a higher priority (A1) than admirals. Belgian Congo and Australia produced some tantalite ore, but shipping difficulties made it hard to get. Now a new source had been discovered in far northern Canada. The discoverer was a stocky, persevering prospector named Gustrne D. De Steffany...
...knows yet just how good the De Steffany strike really is. His first shipment of tantalite ore (700 lbs., worth about $2,000) left Edmonton last week for the U.S. Government's Metals Reserve Co. Dominion Government geologists, who have surveyed the site, somewhere in a vast area bordering Great Slave Lake, report that "it's tantalite country up there...