Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private business to contribute products, exhibits and top executives to the trade missions at the fairs. They have also learned that commonplace U.S. gadgets are often the most effective crowd pleasers. At Zagreb, Yugoslav children were entranced by a machine that transformed powdered milk into ice cream. Says Portland, Ore. Businessman M. J. Edwards, a member of the mission to Zagreb: "You could not buy such good will with 50 times the amount of our investment in that fair...
...Copper-ore deposits of 25 million tons were discovered 100 miles from the Atlantic Coast at Akjoujt. France figures that she can yearly produce 60,000 tons of 25% copper concentrate, ship it to port on new 40-ton, 26-wheel desert trucks which French industry is turning out at the rate of 15 a month...
...Manganese-ore deposits of 1,000,000 tons with 45% metal content were found at Djebel Guettara, south of Morocco. France calculates that with an investment of only $2,000,000, she could economically mine 50,000 tons a year...
DAVID H. CARLSON Portland, Ore...
Coleman acquired a deposit in California's Death Valley. In 120° heat he began mining borax in the valley 280 ft. below sea level. To transport the ore over jagged peaks and through the desert to Mojave, Calif., he formed the famed 20-mule team (actually 18 mules and two horses), was soon hauling out 2,500,000 tons of ore annually...