Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With some of the cash it raised on these sales Alleghany has already bought into Portsmouth Steel and Interlake Steamship Co., a Great Lakes ore carrier, and increased its holdings of Pittston Co., one of the world's largest coal producers. Wall Streeters also gossiped that Young was casting a buying eye on Western Union and American Express Co., which he thought he could get cheap. Both would fit nicely into his transportation kingdom. For landing big fish like these, Bob Young was readying...
...Salem, Ore., theater owners denounced as un-American a bill to ban pop corn & peanuts from movie houses. In Washington, the C.I.O.'s shirt-sleeved Political Action Committee moved to fancy new quarters formerly occupied by the Dewey-Warren committee...
Last month, volatile little Composer Ernest Bloch gave Portland, Ore. music lovers his best advice on how to behave at a concert (TIME, March 7). "Don't be inhibited," he hollered happily from the podium, "I'm not!" In Manhattan last week daughter Suzanne Bloch was proving herself a chip...
Died. Chase Salmon Osborn, 89, author, prospector, philanthropist and onetime progressive Republican Governor of Michigan (1911-12); of pneumonia; in Poulan, Ga. Osborn made a fortune from iron ore discoveries in Canada, Lapland, Africa and Latin America (he gave most of the money to charity), sponsored one of the first workmen's compensation bills in the nation, Michigan's first women's suffrage measure. Two days before his death, he married Stellanova Osborn, 55, his longtime secretary and adopted daughter (after a court dissolved the adoption...
...already spent $1,500,000 on his project, $300,000 of it building a road from Monrovia to the mountain 45 miles away. He expects to spend a total of $8,000,000 building a railroad to the mine and getting the mine in operation. Just how much ore is in the mountain has not been determined. But Christie and Republic estimate it upwards of 30 million tons, enough to make the deal highly profitable for both of them, as well as for Liberia...