Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everyone in Korea dreams longingly of the day a troopship will carry him home. At least one G.I., 30-year-old Sergeant Ralph Ripley of Portland, Ore., refuses to be rotated. Ripley explained that, as a regimental postmaster, he can spend all of his free time working on his $35,000 stamp collection without interference. "You're safe from women overseas. I had a lot of buddies who went back and they got hooked...
...quartet's four members are as American as White Christmas. First Violinist Mann, 31, comes from Portland, Ore.; Second Violinist Robert Koff, 32, from Los Angeles; Violist Raphael Hillyer, 37, from Hanover, N.H., and Cellist Arthur Winograd, 31, from Manhattan. Mann and Koff knew each other at the Juilliard conservatory; Winograd and Hillyer, a onetime violinist in the Boston Symphony, met at Tanglewood. After the war (all but Hillyer were in the Army), they got together and persuaded Juilliard President William Schuman that they were exactly what he wanted for a resident quartet...
Among the men who made steel in Pittsburgh, the strongest of all was "Hunkie" Joe Magarac. He was born in an ore mine and grew 7 ft. tall. He could gulp a gallon of prunejack in a single swig, hoist an 850-lb. steel dolly like a paperweight and twist it like a pretzel. One day, when Magarac took off his shirt, fellow workers discovered the source of his strength: Joe was made of steel...
...dumped in Geier's lap. Samples: ¶ The Air Force wants a tool that can cut 2,800 Ibs. of metal down to a complex wing gear weighing 200 Ibs., with contoured surfaces, tricky drill holes, etc. ore into pieces of a certain size. Because the ore has never been handled before for manufacturing purposes, Cincinnati must first find out its qualities...
...Uranium ore...