Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arizona, 45 miles from Tucson, lies the nation's biggest untapped source of copper. It is the 4,411-acre San Manuel field, which geologists estimate contains 460 million tons of ore-enough to last the U.S. for about three years. But it has not been exploited because the low-grade ore would be enormously expensive to mine and process...
...such traditional Southern agricultural products as cotton, rice, tobacco and peanuts play a leading role in the new industrial economy. Similarly responsible for much of the recent manufacturing expansion (and directly related to the industrial areas on the map) are the South's natural-resource riches: iron ore and coal in Alabama and Kentucky, natural gas and oil along the Gulf Coast, Georgia's and South Carolina's clay, North Carolina's mica and feldspar, Louisiana's sulphur, bauxite in Arkansas, Georgia and Alabama, phosphate rock in Tennessee and Florida, commercial forest land...
...weeks ago, Premier René Pleven proclaimed austerity for France, and a Slash in imports of U.S. coal, ore and raw materials, in an effort to brake the run. But devaluation rumors had French capital badly scared...
...Steel signed contracts to build a $15 million, 170-mile-long ship channel through Venezuela's Macareo and Orinoco Rivers that will enable seagoing ore boats to pick up high-grade iron ore from its Cerro Bolivar iron mine, deliver it to the -new Fairless plant (TIME...
...plant at Lawrence, Kans. with $6,000,000 borrowed from C.C.A. members and the rest from the RFC. C.C.A. will also build a 5,000-barrel-a-day catalytic cracker for its refinery at Phillipsburg, Kans., open $1,000,000 worth of lumber kilns at its mill in Swisshome, Ore...