Word: ores
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Hobby Horses. In Portland, Ore., Mayor Earl Riley got a letter from a woman in Canton, Ohio: "I have a hobby collecting horses and try to get one from each state as a souvenir. . . . Would you please oblige and send me one, any kind, as I have all kinds. Send C.O.D." Witness. In Bayonne, N.J., the late Dr. John Jay Hunt named "God Almighty" as witness to his will, bequeathed his patients' unpaid bills to the Salvation Army or the Red Cross, requested that his ashes be cast into the sea. The will was declared invalid because the signature...
Alum for Basic. But the Truman sleuths found little to praise in the sorry story of Basic Magnesium. Conceived by Cleveland's Basic Refractories, Inc., the project mushroomed from a $24,000 investment in magnesium-bearing ore lands to a DPC contract to build and operate a $70,000,000 magnesium plant. Basic Magnesium, the company's operating subsidiary, stood to net a fat $840,000 yearly on the deal, although "it had no financial resources and only the most meager experience and talent." Typical result: although the magnesium-bearing ore was over 200 miles distant, the plant...
Biggest industrial venture is the steel mill at Volta Redonda in the State of Rio de Janeiro. Partly financed by a $45,000,000 Export-Import Bank credit for buying U.S equipment, it will process ore from the enormous, high-grade deposits at Itabíra in the State of Minas Geraes. Eventually, Volta Redonda should supply Brazil with a good part of the steel which must now be imported. U.S. help in this project has won a lot of good will...
...crew of 450 pollsters moved into the three Henry J. Kaiser-operated shipyards in the Portland (Ore.) area. In seven days, they sieved 81,881 workers through a series of questions designed to peg down their postwar plans, the first such big worker-by-worker poll in the U.S. Last week, Shipbuilder Kaiser, who footed the bill, the Portland Chamber of Commerce and the Maritime Commission, which helped poll, announced the statistical shocker: other than present employment, 86% of the workers have no postwar job in sight...
...Hell Hat was launched last week at the Albina yards at Portland (Ore.). She is a PCE submarine chaser.* She is named for a woman, who is nicknamed after her hat. The woman is Jean Muir, Oregon Journal reporter...