Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a U.S. city, its population and pocketbook swollen by war work, has worried itself sick over an inevitable postwar collapse. Last week the city fathers of Portland, Ore. did something about...
...Reedsport, Ore., Mrs. Paul Bernhardt and Mrs. Charles Henderson set out to do a little seining, encountered a young cougar along the way, cast their net, brought him back alive...
...grain-exporting region, its grain surplus this year may run as high as 500,000 tons. The French in Tunisia are stockpiling some of it to help feed France if & when. Some of the money the U.S. spent has already been repaid in North African cork, phosphates, iron ore and olive oil. The French have also paid $25,000,000 in cash...
Trim, dark-eyed Anne Josephine Shofner gave a party last week in Portland. Ore. She fed baked beans to the city's politicos, Navy brass hats and scores of grimy workers. On her guest of honor, decked out in roses, glutted with pigiron, she splattered champagne. After the party, the guest-a $70,000 Lectromelt furnace-went hotly to work turning out steel for Mrs. Shofner's steel casting plant...
...Shofner, 43, only steelwoman on the West Coast, has had little time for ordinary partygoing. Married in 1919, she took over her husband's railroad brake-shoe foundry at Linnton, Ore. when he died four years later. Mrs. Shofner did not like the cut of the brake shoe, patented a better one, sold her tidy little business for $200,000 in 1937. She bought a first-class ticket to Europe, but soon found she was less interested in cathedrals and art galleries than in the sooty, sprawling plants of the Ruhr, of Milan. She fell in love with steel...