Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ore-seamed mountains around Leadville, Colo, men hacked millions of dollars of quick wealth for almost two generations. Leadville's ramshackle streets were lined with saloons, dance halls, "wine theaters," brothels. Lucky miners became millionaires overnight, tossed silver dollars at stage girlies in red tights, brawled, gambled, built gingerbread palaces on the hill. Leadville had its ups & downs - gold in the '60s ; silver-rich carbonate ores that made the Carbonate Kings in the '70s; the Little Johnny and other gold-mine workings in the '90s. By 1933, however, most of the zinc, lead and silver mines...
...Norwegian port of Bodo the carrier's planes, thus handsomely escorted, scored heavily: they put at least twelve direct hits on eight merchantmen (ranging in size from 3,000 to 10,000 tons). The planes also buffeted a landing barge, a 500-ton ship, a 1,200-ton ore vessel. Lost: three U.S. planes, destroyed by anti-aircraft fire...
...Portland, Ore., the seven men on a raft (TIME, Oct. 4) got off happily when lagging Oregon finally reached its $104 million quota...
Died. Carl Edwards Johansson, 79, Swedish-born father of hair-splitting precision gauges; in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Be ore he was 32, the shaggy-browed toolmaker hand-forged and hand-polished blocks of steel so internally stressless, externally flawless that they could detect a machinist's error to within 2,000,000ths of an inch (a 2,000,000th is to an inch as an inch is to 31.6 miles). Nicknamed "Jo" blocks, they made possible mass production's interchangeability of parts...
Seven unhappy shipyard workers huddled on a raft near Portland, Ore., tired, hungry and cold. They were down to two days' chocolate rations. Within yoo-hoo distance floated the Coast Guard, sternly refusing them food, blankets, sympathy...