Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would like to advise that the Liberty vessel, S.S. Jason Lee, launched from the Kaiser Co.'s Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. on June 27, 1942, was christened by Mrs. Walter E. Harris, wife of Walter E. Harris, Negro swing shift porter. . . . HAL BABBITT Publicity Director Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. Portland, Ore...
...airmen for their "inhuman act" in bombing Tokyo, everyone thought it was more Jap eyewash. Then the Japs came out with names and addresses (Lieut. William J. Farrow, of Darlington, S.C.; Lieut. Dean E. Hallmark, Dallas, Tex.; Sergeant Harold A. Spatz, Lebo, Kans.; Corporal Jacob D. Deshazer, of Madras, Ore...
...were in the Army, they would perhaps do much less real good. Fear that the term yellow or slacker may be given them after the war is driving many essential civilians into uniform. I have recently seen a school superintendent, a mathematics instructor, a physician and several essential iron-ore mineworkers, all of whom were not replaceable, join the colors because of this fear. An unthinking public daily cuts national civilian productiveness by thus forcing into combat service men who are properly exempted from service by age, dependency or draft-board action...
...Government finally put an end to a piece of 100% nonsense: digging gold in wartime out of the California and Dakota hills for $35 per ounce and then laboriously reburying it at Fort Knox. The War Production Board last week decreed that gold mines must stop breaking out new ore this week, stop all operations within 60 days. The War Manpower Commission simultaneously moved to force gold miners to take jobs in other non-ferrous mines-notably copper-which are desperately short of manpower (TIME...
Many gold men scoffed at such hopes, said that no more than six or seven hundred miners would be set free. One reason is that some gold companies will be allowed to continue operating because their gold ore also yields war-needed metals, and because they have developed other types of mines. Alaska Juneau, for instance, is developing a chrome mine in California. Hardest-hit of all the gold companies is Homestake Mining, which paid spectacular stock and cash dividends through the '30s. From a high of $60.25 per share in 1940 Homestake dropped to $22 in anticipation...