Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government for the most part ignored these suggestions. Last week, New York Times Correspondent Arnaldo Cortesi summed up ECA's complaints in a dispatch to his newspaper. When the Italian press picked up the story, Italy's able ECA Chief Leon Dayton, former president of a Portland, Ore. super market, held a press conference in which he called the Italian government policy "too damn cautious...
...steel industry gets most of its iron ore from the vast ranges of northern Minnesota, where the rich, rust-like dust can be shoveled up from the ground. But by 1970, or sooner, the open-pit ranges of Minnesota will be scraped bare...
Beneath the Minnesota ground, however, there is a low-grade ore called taconite, which has never been developed-for lack of a cheap, practical way to extract it. Several years ago, researchers at the University of Minnesota perfected a method of crushing the rock, extracting the ore by magnets and compressing it into pellets containing 60% iron (v. 50% for the open-pit ores...
...scale mining of taconite was feasible, Republic Steel Corp. and Armco Steel Corp. joined hands and began to dig in. On a 50-50 basis, they bought out Reserve Mining Co., which owns leaseholds on 17,000 acres of taconite. Republic and Armco agreed to build a $60 million ore-processing plant near Beaver Bay, on Lake Superior's North Shore, and a 47-mile railroad to the taconite mines. The immediate production goal: 2,500,000 tons of taconite ore a year. Ultimately, the two companies plan to spend $100 million more to boost production to 10 million...
Evangelist Billy Graham, 31 (TIME, March 20), was still preaching to the biggest congregations in the U.S. Winding up a six-week revival meeting last week in a specially erected tabernacle in Portland, Ore., he had run up an amazing record: 632,000 attendance, 8,000 conversions. It seemed to be the biggest evangelistic campaign since the late Billy Sunday drew 1,500,000 people in New York 33 years ago. Next Graham vineyard: Minneapolis...