Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walk atop the 680-ton lock gates stepped 16-year-old Jan Harns, smashed a beribboned bottle of champagne over the black iron and concrete of the walk. Thus this week one of the world's most strategic locks was formally opened to deep-laden, deep-tooting ore boats. The lock, named for General Douglas MacArthur, is the newest on the Sault Ste. Marie Canal, the most vital waterway in the U.S. Through the Soo passes 80% of the iron ore (mainly from Minnesota's Mesabe range) that U.S. steel mills feed into the U.S. war machine...
Thus ended a three-year nightmare for top war production officials; one saboteur's lucky blast heretofore could have wrecked the two big side-by-side Soo locks, leaving but one small lock to carry the ore, and so throttle steel production...
When Michigan went ahead on its own, Federal soldiers chased the shovelmen away. In 1852 Congress relented-the discovery of the fabulous iron ore reserve of the region had been made. Since then the canal has been enlarged, new locks have been added: the Weitzel Lock (1881), Poe (1896), Davis (1914), Sabin...
...MacArthur Lock is not so long as the Davis or Sabin, but it is deep enough for the new 16,000-ton Maritime Commission ore carriers. It can be filled or emptied in six minutes. And it opens in a critical month in a critical year. A late spring delayed opening of the ice-choked St. Mary's River, whittled 8,000,000 desperately-needed tons of ore shipments. How much the MacArthur Lock increases Soo capacity is a military secret. But steelmen know the increase is enormous...
...said Mr. Ickes, lifting a warning finger: oil reserves might be exhausted in 20 years, zinc in 25, copper in 30, lead in 30 to 40, and high-grade iron ore in 50. But coal deposits, which Harold Ickes valued at $10 trillion, could last 50 centuries...