Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Treasury Secretary Henry J. Morgenthau Jr. went to Portland, Ore. to spur the war bond drive, was given local apples to compare with his own New York State-grown product, compared them (see cut). At Henry Kaiser's Swan Island shipyard a young worker remarked: "Say, I always have wanted some money direct from the Treasury." The Secretary reached into his right-hand exchequer, gave him two bits...
...great Soo Locks at the eastern tip of Superior and the narrow Straits of Mackinac that connect Lake Michigan with Lake Huron are the twin bottlenecks through which 85% of the nation's vast iron ore production flows to U.S. blast furnaces. The ore moves eastward to the Soo from Minnesota's Mesabi Range, then southwest to Gary, southeast to Cleveland, Youngstown and Pittsburgh...
Even in the warmest years, ice stops this flow for some four months. Last year, with an early thaw, the Lakes opened late in March, stayed open until Dec. 9. Thereby total ore deliveries for the open season soared to almost 92,000,000 tons, a record. This year the goal is around 95,000,000 tons-and already four weeks (good for 8,650,000 tons in 1942) have been lost in the big freeze. Only counter balance: 16 new ore boats, good for monthly deliveries of about 1,000,000 tons...
Meanwhile, at Escanaba, Mich., ore piled up from rail deliveries across the tip of Wisconsin. Freighter captains cursed. Fifteen ore boats nudged each other in the two-dock harbor which can load only six at a time. Escanaba had more than the weather to complain about: only recently WPB stopped work on a $58,000,000 War Department program to enlarge Escanaba loading facilities, and to provide a large-scale alternative route in case bombs or sabotage knocked...
Steel Mathematics this year is starkly simple: 95,000,000 tons of Mesabi iron ore will make 61,250,000 tons of pig iron. Already stockpiled around lower Lake ports are some 16,000,000 tons of ore, which will add around 10,000,000 tons to the pig supply; another 10,000,000 tons of pig will come from other U.S. iron deposits. But at least 3,000,000 tons (on a pig-iron basis) must be stored up to carry steel mills through the next big freeze. That means not much more than 50,000,000 tons...