Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stalinsk, in the coal-rich Kuzbas, the Russians have built a sizable new steel mill. Farther east there are only two known mills; one, with 200,000 tons' capacity, is at Komsomolsk (north of Vladivostok), supplying naval construction and ordnance for the Far East. Since Siberia lacks iron ore, this plant must get its iron from western Russia. The other is a tiny mill somewhere in the Transbaikal...
Transport is the overall limiting factor in the economic growth of the U.S.S.R. Russia's resources, especially iron ore and coal, are wide apart (see above). Russia has five main industrial regions: north western European Russia (Moscow, Leningrad, Gorky); the Ukraine (Kiev, Krivoi Rog, Dneprostroi) ; the newer industrial complex just behind the Urals (Sverdlovsk, Magnitogorsk, etc.); the Kuznetsk Basin (Novosibirsk, Stalinsk, etc.); and the scattered mills, mines, army bases and slave-labor camps near the Pacific. Despite a widespread belief in the West that Russia's industrial trend is toward "safety behind the Urals," there is evidence that...
...city of Portland, Ore., which won the 1950 Community Human Relations Award for easing religious and racial tensions, voted down an ordinance which would have made it illegal to refuse service to non-whites in stores, hotels and restaurants...
While developing her industry, Canada has also strengthened her position as a leading world supplier of raw materials. The vast oil exploration program in Alberta ("Second only to that of Texas") and the 350-million-ton Ungava-Labrador iron ore deposits ("Only a fraction of what the field will eventually yield") are prime examples of new riches uncovered during...
Died. Ernest Haycox, 51, "the Somerset Maugham of the western," spinner of some 300 published Wild West yarns, including Union Pacific, Stagecoach; of cancer; in Portland, Ore...