Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japan's shipyards are enjoying a tremendous revival, brought about, largely, by U.S. Shipbuilder Daniel K. Ludwig, owner of the world's second largest private fleet. Last week Ludwig's National Bulk Carriers, Inc., announced its future plans for two monstrous 103,000-ton oil and ore carriers-the world's biggest-to be built in its Kure, Japan shipyards...
Even if he had never ventured beyond his own field, Frank Loxley Griffin, 75, would still have enjoyed a reputation as a distinguished mathematician. But to little (650 students) Reed College in Portland, Ore., Griff has always been a great deal more than that. When he retired in 1952 after 41 years, the college thought it had lost not only a beloved teacher, but a man who as much as any had made Reed the lively and respected campus that...
...army in World War I, Captain Röchling ordered the scrapping of French iron and steel plants in occupied areas. Later the victorious French sentenced Hermann Röchling in absentia to ten years in prison, confiscated the Röchlings' big iron works and ore fields in Lorraine, plus 60% of their Völklingen steel plant and some coal mines in the neighboring Saar...
...Final Shot. Weyer now had only to substantiate Violet's story with physical proof. Into the case came Ballistics Expert Stanley MacDonald, Multnomah County detective chief in Portland, Ore. MacDonald examined fabric shreds, wall sections, photographs, figured the directions of the four shots, compared firings from the shotgun. Two months later he presented his findings: Marion Sill had fired three times at Violet, then reloaded the gun; the fourth shot, which entered Sill's neck from a perpendicular angle, was the one that splattered his flesh on the ceiling, the one that Violet triggered from the floor. Furthermore...
...midst of their country's roaring oil boom, thoughtful Venezuelans sometimes wonder what might happen to their economy if some adverse development-widespread utilization of atomic energy, perhaps, or big new oil finds in other countries-rubbed the bloom off the boom. Industrial growth based on abundant iron ore and the huge hydroelectric potential of the Caroni promises to put a second powerful prop under the economy, and make Venezuela's future more secure...