Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days after Pearl Harbor, RID's Portland, Ore. listening post picked up a suspicious signal, communicated it to Washington. Within six minutes, seven Adcocks throughout the country, fixed it somewhere in the District of Columbia. Next day, when the illegal transmitter came on again, RID tracked it straight to the German Embassy on Massachusetts Avenue...
...Spain last week. The flame burned hottest on Sweden's giant SKF (Svenska Kullagerfabriken), which supplies huge quantities of ball bearings to Germany's war machine. The U.S. had turned up the torch because the Swedish Government still declined to abolish these and other shipments (notably iron ore) to Germany, still insisted that a recent reduction was all the Allies should expect...
...trade-conscious Sweden received its warning with a surprised gasp. Giant, Swedish-owned SKF (Svenska Kullager-fabriken) has had its Schweinfurt and Paris factories blitzed by American bombers; but others, in Sweden, kept on turning out ball bearings for the Nazi war machines. Swedes had thought that their iron-ore and ball-bearing trade with Germany had U.S.-British blessing; both Allies approved the revised Swedish-German trade pact last January.* If deprived of U.S. gasoline Swedes would suffer, but not so much as if they gave up German coal. Likely Swedish answer: a pained, determined...
...anyone else. Asked where the steel would come from, he said: "I don't think they're just going on stockpiling it." Asked about manpower, he said: "We will use existing personnel; if they leave us, we'll recruit others." Forthwith A.P. reported from Portland, Ore. that Kaiser recruiters were seeking 15,200 more workers in the Midwest, the Southwest, and even in Washington, D.C. Asked about Army & Navy permission, he said he had not consulted them-"Why should...
These reports dimmed hopes that 285 million bushels of Canadian wheat could be imported via the lower Great Lakes ports this year, over & above the 90 million tons of iron ore and 57 million tons of coal that must move by that route. And reports made the bulge in Florida vacation travel seem more scandalous...