Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Coast hot-rod fiends have been making pedestrians leap like kangeroos ever since some nameless hot-rodder rigged a sparkplug in his exhaust pipe and made a profound discovery-that waste gases, thus ignited, produce a spectacular "hoosh" of flame. Last week the Portland, Ore. city council was taking steps to make hot-rod flame-throwing illegal. But the fad was moving faster than the lawmakers ; Longview, Wash, reported with nervous pride that a local rodder was regularly getting a six-foot "hoosh...
Total German output is now 128% of 1936's. Production of iron ore, crude oil, light metal products, artificial fibers, optical and precision instruments has reached an alltime high...
...other Latin American country has anything like the oil industry from which the Venezuelan government siphons off 60% of its annual income. Venezuela has mountains of iron ore, plenty of potential hydroelectric power. The country never saw anything like the present building activity, public and private...
...Shell Game. In his profession, he soon found what he was looking for. Before he was 40 he was one of the world's foremost mining engineers ("My aggregate income . . . probably exceeded that of any other American engineer"), an operator of rich ore and gem mines in almost every corner of the earth, a multimillionaire whose viscera felt the first gentle urgings of philanthropy. When World War I came, Hoover, summering in England, became by accident the founder of a committee to get stranded Americans back home...
...operatic version in 1933. Met Conductor Artur Bodanzky saw it and liked it, but died before he could get it produced. Over the years, The Dybbuk inhabited several other composers, among them Hollywood's Dimitri Tiomkin. Two years ago, excerpts from the Tamkin work were presented in Portland, Ore. Last season the New York City Opera scheduled a production, but postponed it "for economy." Last week the Tamkin Dybbuk finally found fulfillment, and Manhattan's City Center Theater was packed for the world premi...