Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...equally gallant. "A swell guy, that Raúl Castro," said Edward Cannon, a builder from Cornwall, Ont., as he stepped off a helicopter at the base upon being freed. "We had good food and plenty of it, and beds with clean sheets," chimed in Henry Salmonson of Portland, Ore...
...grow even busier when deep-draft ships can steam directly from the ocean lanes into the ports of Toronto, Cleveland and Chicago in what trade promoters like to call the Eighth Sea, the Fourth Coast, the North American Mediterranean. The main payloads on the old 14-ft. canals - iron ore upstream from Labrador and wheat downstream to Montreal-will fill the holds of probably nine-tenths of the ships on the new canal. Seaway planners forecast a traffic load of 25 million tons on the new seaway next season-just double the old seaway's 13 million tons...
...week came new evidence powerfully supporting the hypothesis that Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo engineered the international kidnaping of Basque Scholar Jesús de Galíndez from the heart of Manhattan on March 12, 1956. Released were papers of Pilot Gerald Murphy, the onetime Eagle Scout from Eugene, Ore. who flew the kidnap plane and later vanished in the Dominican Republic. Items...
...Lawrence River and the Welland Canal, a ship would be charged 6? for each gross registered ton, plus 42? for each short ton (2,000 Ibs.) of bulk cargo and 95? a ton for general cargo. A modern C-2 freighter carrying 4,000 tons of bulk cargo (ore, grain, pulpwood. scrap) and 4,000 tons of packaged merchandise would pay $5,955 for a one-way passage; a profitless trip in ballast would cost only $475 in tolls...
...take Petrillo's place as president of the American Federation of Musicians, the assembled delegates elected Little Caesar's own nominee, Herman David Kenin, 56, the union's West Coast representative. A onetime fiddler and bandleader, New Jersey-born Kenin practiced law in Portland, Ore. and dabbled in union politics for 22 years, gave up his law practice in 1943, when he became a member of the A.F.M.'s executive board. His grey-flannel-suited unionism is as remote from Jimmy's overpadded whoop-and-holler style as the violin section from the brasses...