Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the globe, U.S. businessmen were at work. In Australia, Pepsi-Cola Co. was spending $1,200,000 to buy and renovate two factories, and Borden Co. was planning a new milk-processing plant. In Canada, Cleveland's M. A. Hanna Co. was developing the rich iron-ore deposits in the Ungava area of Northern Quebec and Labrador, a project that may cost $200 million. Automaker Henry J. Kaiser had landed a $2,500,000 contract with Israel to build an auto assembly plant in Haifa. In Latin America, considered an "undeveloped" area by Point Four planners, some...
...valuable is a Godfrey free plug on the air that manufacturers, on the off chance that he will mention them, deluge him with .merchandise ranging from buttermilk to uranium ore to elks. They remember that, on TV, he has often taken a pull at a Coke bottle when he might have been plugging his sponsored products. And they know that Godfrey's fooling around with a ukulele on the air pumped new life into an industry that had been dormant since the early 1930s. Said uke salesman Jack Loeb: "Sales went from nothing to higher than they had been...
Open-hearth furnaces melt together pig iron, scrap steel, iron ore and limestone. The carbon is oxidized by the oxygen in the iron ore and goes up the stack as carbon dioxide. Other impurities are absorbed by the limestone slag on the surface of the molten iron. U.S. Steel's new "Turbo-Hearth" furnace blows jets of air across the surface of a pool of molten pig iron. The oxygen in the air combines with the impurities, removes them from the iron, turns the iron to low-carbon steel. This method is not very different from the Bessemer process...
...about culture," trilled Authoress Ilka (Past Imperfect) Chase, 44, who blew into Portland, Ore. to tell dealers how to sell Cadillacs to women. "Of course," she told the press, one "can be very successful or proficient and still not be cultured...
...Portland, Ore., 1,000 theatergoers waited until 12:30 a.m. for the curtain to go up on Inside U.S.A., starring Beatrice Lillie, after the theatrical company, aboard a train from Los Angeles, was snowbound in the Cascade Mountains. The weary, determined players performed for the weary, determined audience until the final curtain rang down...