Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dumb Cop. In Portland, Ore., police put out a fire under a parked automobile, considerably annoying George Harper, its owner, who complained that he always left the pilot light burning in his Stanley Steamer...
Last week a battered old hulk was towed into Sturgeon Bay, Wis., to the din of saluting tugboat whistles and cheering throngs along the shore. The ugly hulk was the 600-ft. ore freighter George M. Humphrey, rusty red from 15 months under water. Her pilothouse had been crushed and her funnel twisted by the winter ice; the ripping current had torn off layers of paint, left her rail in tatters and smashed in the bulkheads. But to all of Sturgeon Bay (pop. 5,439) and especially to stocky, blue-eyed Captain John Roen, she was as worthy...
Rammed by another ship during a fog, June 15, 1943, the Humphrey, loaded with 22,000 tons of iron ore, had gone down in the swift, treacherous current of the Straits of Mackinac, connecting Lakes Michigan and Huron. Lying in 80 feet of water, with her pilothouse only 15 feet below the surface, she was a menace to navigation in the heavily traveled, four-mile-wide channel. Marine experts said nothing could be done; the depth and current made her salvage impossible. Even the Normandie* they pointed out, had flopped over in only 40 feet, and well away from...
Fare Dealing. In Portland, Ore., a woman passenger handed a bus driver two tickets, explained: "I weigh 481 pounds, and I really take up two full seats...
...farmers into regained Manchurlan land. "The rapid progress of recent Chinese immigration into Manchuria is almost unparalleled," he stated. "And Manchuria remains a veritable pioneer region--the area of its arable land still can be doubled, and so can its population. The potential values of the natural resources--iron ore, coal, timber, and oil shale--of the Manchurian hill lands in their relation to post-war industrialization are almost incalculable...