Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some heavy deficits for the company's British owners. What magnetized Hanna, which had been built into a $250 million empire by former Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey, was not the gold heart; it was the iron breast, 2 billion tons of high-grade (60% to 70% pure) ore in the surrounding hills. But getting it was another matter...
Gold from Iron. Hanna's goal is to turn D'el Key into a major ore supplier for the U.S. and Europe; D'el Key will be almost as big as Hanna's Labrador project, which shipped about 12.5 million tons last year. It plans to spend something like $300 million for equipment, a railroad and a port to get the ore to market. In winter, Hanna's fleet of 40,000-ton ore carriers will shift southward from ice-locked Labrador to Brazil, cut around the world carrying 10 million tons of ore annually...
Loaded Words. In Salem, Ore., the Unemployment Compensation Commission decided that a Portland woman was entitled to unemployment compensation because she quit after her boss called...
Turkey in 1950 still had something close to a colonial economy. Despite its coal, iron and water power, it remained an industrial pygmy, earned most of its foreign exchange by exporting tobacco, cereals, filberts, raisins, figs and chrome ore. More than 65% of Turkey's 20 million citizens were still illiterate. Four out of five of the nation's 36,000 rural villages had no proper drinking water. More than half of Turkey's 27,000 miles of "highway" were officially listed as "passable by carts during the dry season only." And Turkey's peasants...
...least 35 of the students who gathered for the special class at Benson Polytechnic High School in Portland, Ore. last week had reason to feel a little ill at ease. They were all local high-school teachers, and there they were with 45 of the brightest boys and girls in town, taking a course as if they were still in their teens. "Let us not let our blood pressure go up." said Instructor William Matson soothingly. "Let us not let our hearts beat too fast." Then he began his lecture on the complexities of modern mathematics...