Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scottish ancestors turning over in their graves at the inference that Highland bagpipes are "milkcurdling." Our baby daughter Linda learned to pat the plump tartan bag on my bagpipes long before she went from mother's milk. CAPT. CHESTER A. MACNEILL JR. Champion Bagpiper of Oregon Portland, Ore...
...Canadians needed statistics to remind them that 1951 was a banner year. Evidence of the boom ran clear across the country, from the $9 million mining development to get more iron ore from under the Atlantic off Newfoundland, to the $27 million pulp mill built by Columbia Cellulose Co. (an affiliate of Celanese Corp. of America) near Prince Rupert in the Pacific Northwest. Other developments...
...project in British Columbia, the biggest single industrial enterprise in the country. Work moved at a 24-hour-a-day pace on a ten-mile water tunnel through the Rockies, a 280-foot power dam, and the world's biggest aluminum mill to open in 1954. ¶ Iron Ore Co. of Canada got well under way on 360 miles of track through the wilderness of northern Quebec to its $200 million iron ore project in Ungava. ¶ A record $250 million was invested in exploration and development of Alberta oil, and another $300 million was lined...
...nickel, pushed ahead with expansion plans involving more than $160 million. Canada also moved to dominate world production of titanium. After putting up $40 million, Quebec Iron and Titanium Corp. (owned by Kennecott Copper and New Jersey Zinc) began mining the world's largest deposits of titanium ore in Quebec...
...using up such minerals as iron, copper and lead far faster than anyone had anticipated only a few years ago. In many ways the U.S., once the owner of seeming inexhaustible natural treasures, was in danger of becoming a have-not nation. The end of the fabulously rich ores of the Mesabi Range was already in sight. Steelmakers not only began shipping in ore from South America and Liberia, but in 1951 they began operating plants to make the poor-grade taconite ore usable. Copper became so scarce that some metal producers talked of a permanent copper shortage...