Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help deliver them: they carted the books to his farm and dumped them at Hamsun's door. Last week, at an auction in Oslo, a 20-volume first edition of Hamsun's collected works came up for bidding. A blunt silence fell. When a woman shouted "five ore" (U.S. equivalent: one cent), another, to pacify the auctioneer, bid one crown (about 25?), won the edition and promptly mailed it back to its author...
Last Word. In Portland, Ore., a clause in the will of A. C. Forrester, late sanitary engineer, ran: "I give and bequeath unto the so-called sanitary engineering profession or professors a good healthy Bronx cheer...
...qualities of leadership had been developing since he was a youngster, the first of six children of the Rev. David Owen Ghormley, Presbyterian minister of Portland, Ore. When Bob Ghormley was ten, the family moved to Moscow, Idaho, and it was from there he entered the Academy...
While Henry Kaiser was in Washington arguing for permission to build planes, his able son Edgar, in charge of the three Kaiser yards at Portland, Ore., was busy making plans for converting the yards and figuring how the planes could be built. Accustomed to many makeshifts, he figured on buying little machinery, making tools on hand do as much as possible...
...weight of men & materials was on BOCK'S side. The prize, a chance to slash across the Volga, was worthy of his bloodiest efforts. More important to Russia than the Mississippi is to the U.S.. the Volga on its broad back carries the steel, oil. ore. tanks, guns and food of a vast chain of industrial cities stretching from its headwaters, between Leningrad and Moscow, to the salty Caspian. Canals, first dreamed of by Peter the Great, connect it with the Baltic. The Caspian is a gateway to Baku, to Iran and the outside world. Already Nazi bombers...