Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WHITNEY Portland, Ore...
...French Morocco, Walter saw something that changed his whole life: traces of lead ore, which he recognized because he had seen the same ore around a big mine near Joplin, Mo., U.S.A. Against the advice of experts, Walter decided to start the Zellidja mine at the site. Within a few years he was getting rich...
Into Baltimore harbor last week steamed the converted Liberty ship Simeon G. Reed with a 10,000-ton cargo of iron ore, the first shipment to the U.S. from mines in Liberia. To get out the ore, Republic Steel Corp., which bought an estimated 62% interest in Liberian Mining Ltd. two years ago (TIME, March 28, 1949), has had to build Liberia's first railroad, from the mines to the port of Monrovia 43 miles away. The high-grade Liberian ore (whose iron content is almost 70%, compared to 51% for Lake Superior ore) is rich enough...
...spring of 1938, just after he had delivered 1,200,000 words of manuscript* to his publisher, Wolfe headed for the Pacific Northwest, the only part of the U.S. he had never seen. In Portland, Ore., he met a newspaperman who was about to start on a high-speed tour of the Western national parks. The American Automobile Association was paying expenses and providing a white-painted Ford for the junket. When Wolfe was invited to go along, he jumped at the chance...
...Eugene, Ore., the Big Y store installed four "Rest-a-Checks" at the checkout stations so that customers could take it easy while waiting to pay bills. The Rest-a-Check is a circular turntable divided into three sections, each with a foam-rubber seat big enough to hold three people. When the check-out clerk is ready, he presses a lever which rotates the seats in merry-go-round fashion; the customer pays sitting down...