Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Haugen Act, forerunner of all farm subsidies. Not a man of international vision, but possessor of conscience and integrity, he veered back & forth on intervention before Pearl Harbor. These attitudes told as much of his origin as his thinking. He was born and all his life lived in Salem, Ore. (pop. 30,900), the town whence his grandfather had led the biggest caravan of covered wagons ever to cross the Oregon Trail. On his 300-acre farm, "Fir Cone," McNary's house was shaded by Douglas firs 175 feet tall. An expert orchardist, he grew prize filberts, and developed...
...Since the winter offensive began on December 19, the Red Army has recaptured 77,220 sq. miles of territory, 13,000 hamlets and towns, vast areas rich in iron ore and manganese. Three-quarters of Russia's invaded soil has been retaken...
...Portland, Ore., though well aware that nobody supposes he has barnstormed for his health through 45 States in the past twelvemonth, he made formal announcement that he is a candidate for the GOPresidential nomination. > He disposed of another ritualistic prerequisite for election by being inducted, feather bonnet and all, as "Flying Eagle," into the Blackfeet Indian tribe at Great Falls, Mont...
...blankets most of the Dominion with vital north-south routes, but is barred from the lucrative transcontinental service by the Government-owned Trans-Canada Air Lines, carried 71,000 passengers and 11.5 million Ib. of mail and cargo. Earnings from C.P.-owned telegraph and express services, hotels, grain-and ore-carrying ships on the Great Lakes, and grain elevators scattered across the prairies, were high...
...warm Willkie personality, the straight-from-the-shoulder talk obviously changed or troubled the minds of some anti-Willkie GOPartisans. Most significant: Idaho's Governor Clarence A. Bottolfsen, who previously had publicly endorsed Tom Dewey. The enthusiasm had its effect on Willkie. At a train stop at Baker, Ore., he blurted: "Confidentially, I am going to be nominated...