Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RUBEN ARREOLA Albany, Ore...
...December sun glanced through the big picture windows in the living room of Harry Holt's 13-room farm home perched on a hill near Creswell, Ore. There sat Holt, 52, a thickset man with a ragged mustache and shaggy eyebrows, and his wife Bertha, 53, her unrouged face a picture of contentment. Around the couple cuddled eight button-eyed children, aged 3 to 5. Their thin voices mingled with the Holts' as they sang...
...inject it with drama, he had some 10,000 people in Portland, Ore., one of the U.S.'s 99 "critical targets," go through the motions of mass evacuation on the day "enemy" aircraft approached from the Aleutians, The Day Called X. Rasky's twelve-man technical crew, aided by publicity-eager federal Civil Defense experts and convoyed about the city by police motorcycle escort for three weeks, ably caught the mood of the day that began in an ordinary way. The cameras poked neatly around the well-stocked innards of the city's steel-and-concrete underground...
...India, with the world's second-largest population (380 million, v. 600 million in China) and seventh-biggest area (1,300,000 sq. mi.), is an international giant. In a vast belt running across four of its northeastern states lie an estimated 20.8 billion tons of iron ore and 26 billion tons of coal. Indian steel production last year was 1,900,000 tons (v. Red China's 4,000,000 tons). Indian exports-manganese, tea from Assam, jute from Bengal and cotton cloth from Bombay and Madras-will earn about $1.3 billion this year...
...SHIPBUILDING ORDER will be placed by U.S. Steel Corp.'s Pittsburgh Steamship Division, which plans to spend about $100 million on twelve 20,000-to 25,000-ton Great Lakes ore carriers, several of which would outstrip the largest iron-ore ship now on the lakes-M. A. Hanna Co.'s 23,000-ton George M. Humphrey...