Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressmen were sure there was more than met the eye in his stop order. He blamed the big steel companies, said they feared to develop Southern ore deposits that might upset their national balance after the war. He blamed the "Godawful War Production Board of self-seeking men with large incomes." He said he could have got the steel on the black market if they had let him alone-thus illuminating one big reason why no one yet knows where the U.S.'s steel is going. And neither he nor his Congressmen-nor the U.S. at large-could...
...make sponge iron, ore is not smelted. It is mixed with pulverized coal (natural gas can also be used) and coke, then fed to a large rotary kiln. When the kiln is heated to 1,800°F., the powdered coal first robs the ore (iron oxide) of its oxygen, then turns into gas, leaving fairly pure iron granules which have a spongy texture. This stuff can then be fed to the steel furnaces...
...last 90 years the steel industry has spent millions in futile efforts to make sponge iron. Catch in the process is selection of an ore which can yield high-grade sponge. Plants in Sweden and Finland are now turning it out profitably...
...There are very serious local shortages. Worst of these are in Portland, Me.; Hartford; Buffalo; Baltimore; Washington, D.C.; Hampton Roads, Va.; Charleston, S.C.; Mobile, Ala.; Rockford, Beloit area, Rock Island, and Moline, Ill.; Davenport, Iowa; Seattle-Tacoma; Portland, Ore.; Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Diego. And shortages are already on the horizon in such key cities as Detroit, Akron, Wichita, Milwaukee and Philadelphia. Both WPB and WMC are now committed to a policy of "bringing work to the labor, not labor to the work...
...America, 1932). As custodian of the Mark Twain Papers, Critic DeVoto has been busy since 1938 panning through an immense, theretofore jealously guarded mound of pay dirt: Mark Twain's letters, notebooks, manuscripts. Much of this haphazard heap is just rubble. But some of it is ore that assays high. And it contains clues galore to the size & shape of Mark Twain's talent, his working methods, the ambiguities of his mind and spirit...