Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Casualty. The once lively Portland (Ore.) organization called Mother-by-Proxy-which provided women to look after people's children in the evenings-folded for lack of womanpower...
Silver Bloc. Portland (Ore.) restaurants report heavy increases in thefts of silverware. Their theory: Portland's thousands of new war workers, now starting to furnish 28,683 emergency houses built in the area, are thus assembling their household flatware...
...tons, but if the bed is 3,000 ft. deep-which engineers hold not unlikely-the deposit would run close to a half a billion tons (or about half the Mesabi's 1.2 billions); and in this case Canada, which now consumes about 2,000,000 tons of ore per year and imports most of it, will almost certainly become an exporter...
Conservatives can discount some of this dream but by no means all. The past ten years have seen a steady intensification of the battle for ore reserves which J. P. Morgan thought he had sewed up for U.S. Steel once and for all when he bought some of the great Mesabi mines from Rockefeller. Bethlehem has struck down into South America. Now, if Canada comes in, Big Steel's control of reserves-and perhaps its pocketbook-will be further affected. But for the U.S. economy as a whole, for the first time facing possible exhaustion of its finest ores...
...more productive. She uses a ramshackle, ghost-town U.S. post office as headquarters, tears between her three mountain mines in a secondhand $55 down-payment Ford, wears dirty trousers and wildly striped, tight-fitting sweaters (see cut), bosses her 45 employes like a regular miner. She also produces chrome ore. Her Joe River mine turns out 20 tons every day. Last week she opened her Ladd mine, put more steam behind construction at the McGuffy mine. Thus her production soon will be much higher, although she has already sold 3,200 tons to the Government-20% more than the whole...