Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Urging the lowering of farm price support to suit long-range conditions of supply and demand and the adjustment of our foreign trade balance to the needs of this country and the rest of the world, Slichter said that "increases in Imports of raw materials--oil, iron ore, copper, lumber--would be in the national interest...
...Northwest was a place which provided prerogatives for the average man. Pendleton, Ore. had a country club whose dues were only $6 a month for a family, and its membership included a bakery driver, a farm-implement clerk and two gas-station grease monkeys. This was still unusual, but almost anyone in the Northwest could ski or fish for salmon practically at his front door, build a lawn and admire magnificent mountains as he did so, raise his children decently, and with luck own a boat or a shack in the woods. In moments of contemplation he could fervently pity...
Forgotten Lode. In Salida, Colo., American Legionnaires, gleeful over the discovery of radioactive ore in the fireplace of their post, stopped crowing when they were reminded that they did not know where the rocks had come from...
...thought that $1.3 million for dredging the Detroit River would benefit no one but the Detroit Edison Co., and that $36.9 million to improve the Ouachita River in Arkansas and Louisiana was not justified. In all, he listed $840 million of projects from Prouts Neck, Me. to Westport Slough, Ore.-many of them not even requested by the Administration-which he thought could be lopped...
Across the South Atlantic, Republic Steel Corp. was working a concession in the rich mountain area of Liberia. Within two years it hoped to be shipping 1,000,-ooo tons of iron ore a year from Monrovia to steel mills...