Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ohio--T888, CU 1226, H4082; Wis.--9-115459; Okia.--20-B144 Ore.--814-467; Penna.--3B10, 83RO. 100PL, 6Y137, A260K, B3877, S6200; R. I.--N8871; So. Carolina--D110097; Tenn.--4-13868; Texas--JR990; JW1661, ET6304; Vt.--E2059; Virginia...
...Niemans were unanimous on one thing: they all agreed that Robert B. Frazier, of the Eugene (Ore.) Register-Guard, that "people who predict always get in trouble . . ." Frazier's quandary is that his "native intelligence" tells him Eisenhower will win, while by adding up the electoral votes he finds Stevenson ahead 273 to Ike's 258. "I would be interested if somebody would tell me which is superior--my mathematics or intelligence," he said after voting for the Governor...
...bottoms, though Japanese ships (which had carried the bulk of Japan's prewar imports and exports) could have done the job cheaper. Roughly 25? out of every rehabilitation dollar the U.S. was sending to Japan (excluding military appropriations) was going to U.S. shipowners. Coking coal and iron ore, for example, were costing the American taxpayer about $8 to $9 extra a ton. Faced with these facts, General MacArthur lifted the restrictions in December 1949, gave Japanese shipbuilders the green light to rebuild their ocean-going fleet...
Russia. Truman had taxed Eisenhower with a 1945 statement hoping for peace and collaboration with Russia. "And that charge," said Ike in Eugene, Ore., "came from the very same man who only three years later, remember, in 1948, came to this town [and said]: 'I like old Uncle Joe Stalin. Joe is a decent fellow. But the people who run the government won't let him be as decent as he would like...
...Smuts: "Yes, but it is of no commercial value." Said Smuts (who knew about the Manhattan Project): "I want to know how much there is and how we can get it out." From this conversation grew a plan to combine uranium production with gold production (both from the same ore). In his Atomic Energy Act, Smuts put a clamp (20 years in prison, $15,000 fine) on all discussion of the project, so that South African newspapers did not dare even reprint articles from overseas newspapers...