Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years the swarthy men of Cabernardi, their fathers and their grandfathers before them have dug sulphur out of the vine-covered hills around their village. The black-streaked yellow ore has brought them steady jobs, tidy red brick houses and a measure of happiness, but in recent years it has brought a creeping fear: What if the supply of sulphur should run out? As the mine shaft plunged deeper and deeper into the earth, even Cabernardi's Communists went regularly to the little parish church to pray to St. Barbara that the seam might last forever...
...mining men, developing a uranium-bearing deposit. We're not doctors and don't pretend to be." But even with a daily limit of 30 new visitors, the mine takes in as much as $3,000 a day, and nobody has seen any trucks of uranium ore coming...
Worse still, the strike had shut down the Lake Superior iron mines at the height of the ore shipping season, creating the prospect of a new steel shortage next winter for lack of ore. Even if the strike ends soon, the industry will have trouble making up the lost ore...
...became superintendent of the Erie's rough, tough ore-and steel-hauling Youngstown district. He was tough enough to shoot up, in eleven years, to eastern district manager. But he was also sentimental; in 1938, when he got an offer as general manager of the Virginian, he wept on telling a close friend: "I'm leaving the Erie...
...cupboard of natural resources: "As a nation, we have always been more interested in sawmills than in seedlings." Timber is now being used up 40% faster than new stands are growing; in 1950, the nation used up 8% of its known petroleum reserves, 6% of its lead and iron ore. But absolute shortages, says the commission, "are not the threat in the materials problem . . . The threat lies in insidiously rising costs"-not just dollar costs, but "real" costs in terms of the man-hours and capital needed. For years, "these real costs have been declining and this decline has helped...