Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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State of the Nation is a report of a miracle, and Dos Passos' best book. Its 333 pages and 14 chapters cover the U.S. from Portland, Me. to Portland, Ore. It is the distillation of innumerable interviews in shipyards, union offices, hotel rooms, bars, restaurants, sharecroppers' cabins, trailer camps, busses, trains, automobiles, machine shops...
...rope, a quart of sauerkraut, 5 Ib. of sugar, 3 Ib. of wieners, a gross of used toothpicks, four flashlights, a hammer, six knives, a grindstone, a tube of shaving cream and four putty knives. He was charged with "maintaining a fire hazard." Only Yesterday. In Toledo, Ore., a merchant discovered that he had accepted a bad check drawn on the Lincoln County Bank, which used to be right across the street until it closed ten years ago. For Luck. In San Francisco, Tharn-midsbe L. Praghustspondgifeem, who was known as Edward L. Hayes before he started building combinations...
...invasion eve Portugal finally came through, banned all shipments of tungsten ore (also called wolfram, necessary in hardening steel) to Germany. Just after invasion, Sweden agreed to choke off an important German supply source. Sweden's SKF cut total ball-bearing shipments to Germany by one fifth. The withheld fifth included practically all Swedish bearings for Nazi tanks and planes...
Caught Napping. In Portland, Ore., police picked up a sound-asleep motorist in the middle of a downtown street, let him go when he explained that he "was just waiting for the light to turn...
...their craggy, flounder-shaped island (39,709 sq. mi., about the size of Kentucky), 120,000-odd hardy Icelanders trade in sheepskins, cod and herring, cod-liver oil, furs, some cryolite (an aluminum ore). Proud, self-sufficient people, they have a balanced budget and compulsory education. They have never had an army or navy. They have no beggars, not even a jail for Icelanders...