Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...market, which started out strong, bouncing up 8.30 points to 441.04 on the Dow-Jones industrials average. But as the week progressed, a new report on railroad freight-car loadings showed a sharp drop to 703,688 cars for the week or 13.8% below 1956 levels; loadings of grain, ore and manufactured goods were all down. What worried Wall Streeters was the fact that freight-car loadings normally increase until the end of October, then fall off steadily until year's end. This year the decline started several weeks early, due largely, according to the Association of American Railroads...
...went to Beth as a 15?-an-hour electric-crane operator, moved from one muscle-straining job to another. In 1906, Grace's drive struck the fancy of Beth's Boss Charles M. Schwab, who picked him to overhaul the company's important, but mismanaged, ore properties in Cuba. Grace did so well that he became the star of Bethlehem. By 1916, ten years after he traded overalls for a white collar, he was president...
...tons of uranium concentrate a year, easily enough for the nation's military and power needs. But the hold-down seemed aimed more at squeezing the budget than at controlling an oversupply. Johnson himself admitted that the U.S. has only a ten-year supply of uranium-ore reserves at the projected 1959 production rate. Later he conceded that he does not know how much ore the U.S. will need for its military and economic security ten years from now. Yet uranium men contended that by putting the lid on concentrate output, the AEC will automatically stifle the hunt...
Adenauer's first gambit was to offer Schäffer a new Ministry of Economic Property, which would administer government-owned or controlled enterprises (Volkswagen, 50% of the nation's iron ore. 90% of its lignite). He sweetened the pill by asking if Schäffer would also like to be Vice Chancellor. Protestants within Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party promptly squawked that to replace Protestant Vice Chancellor Franz Blücher with Roman Catholic Schaffer would wreck the Cabinet balance between Roman Catholics and Protestants. Schäffer agreed to accept only if he was also...
RUHR STEELMEN will make their first big investment in Western Hemisphere ore resources. Group of 13 ore-short West German steel firms, including Krupp complex, will open negotiations this month with Canadian Javelin Ltd., which has huge iron and timber reserves in North. If deal goes through, Germans will put as much as $45 million into new 6,000,000-ton-a-year ore processing plant in southern Labrador...