Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Worked out improved ways of refining low-grade ore which may make it possible to tap the uranium in the residues from South Africa's gold fields and Florida's phosphate beds...
Decadent Peoples? The trip began dramatically at the yawning, man-made canyons of the Mesabi iron-ore range, where miners were washing down bedrock with hoses to extract the shrinking deposits of ore. The Congressmen heard estimates that the Mesabi's reserves would last as little as five years longer. They found Mesabi mining men unanimously convinced that the seaway is necessary to bring Labrador ore to U.S. steel mills. Said Major General Lewis Pick, U.S. Army chief of engineers,* who accompanied the Congressmen: "Any man who opposes this undertaking should prepare to make peace with his Maker...
...Congressmen watched the heavy ore boat traffic through Sault Ste. Marie. Then they cruised on the Canadian icebreaker Ernest Lapointe through part of the 120-mile bottleneck preventing similar navigation past the St. Lawrence rapids below Ogdensburg, N.Y. Even with fuel and ballast reduced to cut her draft, the Ernest Lapointe could barely squeeze through the antiquated existing locks. The Congressmen also noted that even now the river is busy with small boat commerce-evidence of potential Canadian profits if Ottawa carries out its threat to build the seaway alone. At Barnhart Island (once a rum-runners' hideaway), they...
EDWARD GINES Portland, Ore...
Time Clock. In Salem, Ore., after Governor Douglas McKay signed a bill putting the state on daylight saving time, the phone company set about trying to trace the caller who buzzed the governor's mansion around 5 every morning and shrilled: "It's time to go to work...