Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...praised bee-busy workers at a Portland, Ore. launching, Rear Admiral Emory Scott Land, salty chairman of the Maritime Commission, was reminded of a jingle. Hastily doctored transcriptions of the talk (broadcast later...
...secretary-treasurer of a large, labor-short laundry in Portland, Ore. swept out the premises each morning...
...trade, but economic man in the U.S. must take a firm resolve not to allow unemployment or threat of unemployment to panic him into raising old tariffs or adding new ones. He should not insist on exhausting the last high-cost mine before letting in a ton of foreign ore. Often he may find ways in which tariffs can be lowered for the profit of the very groups they are supposed to protect. But most of all he must be conscious of his consumer interest in low prices and variety of choice and must seek advocates -perhaps the storekeepers...
...point, to 203% of the 1939 average. This confirmed the belief that production has practically reached its overall ceiling. Most noteworthy increase for the week: railroad carloadings, which bettered the same week in 1942 for the second time this year, thanks to larger coal, coke and iron ore shipments. Last week the Association of American Railroads announced that in April the rails delivered over 3,000,000 tons of export freight to U.S. ports-the biggest load ever, 25% above their deliveries in April...
...price fell first when the carnotite mines of Colorado and again when the Belgian Congo ceased to be the only profitable sources of radium. The third break in price occurred soon after the discovery in 1930 of a rich vein of pitchblende-the ore containing uranium and radium-at Great Bear Lake on the Arctic Circle in Canada (in North America only Lakes Superior, Huron and Michigan are larger...