Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such disasters were routine for the last week of Lakes shipping. What was unusual was the uneventful trip of the last ore boat to come down the Lakes. F. John Bernard Martin, 51, tall, businesslike skipper of the Benson Ford (carrying cargo for U.S. Steel because the Ford fleet has excess capacity) reported "ideal" weather on his trip from Duluth through the Soo Locks to Conneaut, Ohio, and though the Sault River buoys had already been taken in, bright moonlight made it easy for him to pick his way at night...
...Lakes shipping got off to a bad start, opening a month late last spring (TIME, May 3). Then the spring fogs lasted all summer, right into August, when the autumn fogs began. Shipping went through the then-universal shortage of manpower; and Government rush orders, especially for iron ore, made it necessary for ships to make quick return trips empty, instead of waiting for coal or grain. Later on, there were similar rush orders for grain and coal. But despite all this, Lakes shippers delivered this year...
...road again, following a schedule that calls for more than 90 concerts this year, 24 of them in the Library of Congress, four for the New Friends, twelve at a summer engagement at California's Mills College, and the rest in U.S. towns from Portland, Ore. to Annapolis...
Common Carrier. In Salem, Ore., outraged Martha Hager sued a bus company for $28,000, declared that one of the company's workers had looked over a crowd of waiting passengers, including herself, and observed: "You all look like a bunch of pigs...
Infant No. 2. Last week, WPB acted to forestall this possibility. It approved construction of a $4,000,000 alumina refinery plant at Salem, Ore., by another infant, Columbia Metals Corp. The new member of the family is fathered by such West Coast bigwigs as Boeing President Philip Johnson, President Eric Johnston of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Weyerhauser Timber Company's Norton Clapp. The plant, to be built with DPC cash, will produce alumina from the West Coast's vast beds of clay. It will be the first plant in the U.S. to use this process...