Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stranger in Paradise. Near Springfield, Ore., after the main building of the Willamettans nudist colony burned to the ground, its only winter resident, Caretaker A. B. Stevens, breathlessly reported that he had fled the flames with only a few personal belongings and "the clothes on my back...
Honest Abe. In Klamath Falls, Ore., a bidder picked up a bust of Abraham Lincoln for $1.75 at an auction of unclaimed stolen goods, discovered that it was also a savings bank containing $4.50 in coins...
...newspaper that landed on Portland, Ore. doorsteps one morning last week. One story read from right to left, the top and bottom decks of a headline were transposed, the sports-page date was upside down, and the logotype read: THE OREGONIAN OREGON JOURNAL. But what was most surprising of all about the paper was that it appeared at all. It was published jointly by Portland's frequently feuding morning Oregonian (circ. 242,035) and evening Journal (circ. 187,588)-and union employees of both papers were on strike...
...116th day of the longest nationwide steel strike in U.S. history, the Supreme Court upheld the emergency procedure of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act as "a public remedy in times of emergency," gave force to a Taft-Hartley injunction ordering 500,000 steelworkers back to the ore mines, furnaces and mills for 80 days. The court's 8-to-1 decision (Justice William O. Douglas dissenting) cut tersely through the United Steelworkers' lengthy legal challenge, which had already won more than two weeks' delay in the courts. In upholding the injunction handed down by the U.S. District...
Within hours of the court's decision, three loaded ore boats sailed out of Duluth harbor for the steel centers; within two hours maintenance workers began heating up coke ovens in Pittsburgh. By midweek the first pig iron would pour down white-hot from ten-story-high blast furnaces, thence become raw steel within less than 24 hours, bars and sheets within a week or so. Despite these quick reactions, the injunction was little more than an 80-day aspirin for an economy aching for a real cure of the steel crisis...