Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mess Matters. At Camp Adair, Ore., Major Hosiah J. Osborn, assistant commandant of the 9th Service Command School for Bakers & Cooks, came out against K.P. duty as punishment, branded it injurious to the dignity of the kitchen. At Gowen Field, Idaho, the bugler, woolgathering, pursed his lips at 11 p.m. for taps, blew the wrong call, sent some 5,000 men scrambling for the mess hall...
...laboratory curiosity until Dr. William S. Murray, now of Indium Corporation of America, went to work on it in 1924. At that time only one gram was available and it was worth considerably more than platinum. Dr. Murray found that indium could be extracted commercially from a zinc ore mined near Kingman, Ariz. Last year the potential supply was figured at more than two million grams (4,400 Ib.) annually, at a cost of about 40? an ounce. At the rate that it is being put to work, much of that will be needed soon...
...children examined in 1934 by the U.S. Public Health Service, the average number of damaged permanent teeth in 13-year-old boys was 3.09 in Florida, 5.69 in Massachusetts. In San Diego only 45.5% of the schoolchildren have cavities or fillings, compared with 77.5% in temperate Portland, Ore...
...that at the current rate the Mesabi may be gutted in twelve years-will be eased. For at Steep Rock Lake, 100 miles to the north, Canadians, with the help of U.S. capital and engineering, are preparing to exploit a little Mesabi of their own, rich in high-grade ore...
Name News. In Syracuse. Oassie Stimer had his name legally changed to Stanley Steamer. At Rutgers University, Robert Louis Stevenson enrolled in an elementary course in English composition. In Detroit, the Housing Commission pondered evicting Worthy Peoples for not paying his rent. In Portland, Ore., E. L. Aprill and T. B. Showers enlisted in the Navy. In Baltimore, L. B. Mercier was refused a job because he had no first name-just initials. On Guadalcanal, Lieut. Dan Gaede dived into a foxhole, landed on top of Lieut. Commander Dan E. Gaede, a stranger, who turned out to be a cousin...