Word: ores
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...charging that Duplessis was selling out the province's resources to U.S. investors. Ironically, this was the same accusation that opponents have been hurling at the Liberal government in Ottawa. But on the Quebec hustings the Liberal politicians unblushingly fired it at Duplessis, charging that the big iron-ore project in Ungava and other U.S.-financed enterprises were "giveaways to foreigners." The maneuver boomeranged on the Liberals. It merely drew the voters' attention to the province's vast industrial development and general prosperity in recent years-and gave them one more convincing reason to re-elect Maurice...
...acres of wasteland, and four humming power plants generating 200,000 kw. of electric-power capacity. The valley's desert was turning green with crops; plumes of smoke from new plants rose in the air. With 80% of India's coal, 98% of its iron ore, and all of its copper ore, the Damodar Valley was beginning to boom...
...mountain of iron in the southern Urals was the core of the first Soviet in dustrial complex. Last year the Urals and western Siberia alone produced more pig iron than Great Britain. The magnetic mountain at Magnitogorsk has been swallowed in the furnaces, and ore now comes from mines far away. A thousand miles deeper into Siberia is the Kuznetsk basin, where it is planned to produce 80 million tons of coal a year by 1960. Around Kuznetsk, in fast-growing industrial cities -Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, and at Karaganda some way to the southwest-are new steel mills, blast furnaces...
...Bunyans. To make the most of every shaving and splinter, lumber companies are branching into paper and pulp production; paper companies are pushing into lumber manufacture. Georgia-Pacific Corp., No. 2 plywood producer (after U.S. Plywood), recently broke ground for a $20 million pulp and paper mill at Toledo, Ore. Georgia-Pacific President Owen Cheatham, who has increased the company's timber reserves and cutting rights 1,000% since 1953, explained: "We aim to parlay the $900,000 worth of wood chips we sell to paper companies each year into a $10 million paper business...
URANIUM BUYING by Government will be extended five years beyond 1962 expiration date of current program. New plan will put fixed price of $8 a Ib. on domestic concentrate, instead of having AEC negotiate separate contracts with producers. AEC will also let miners sell part of ore direct to licensed commercial users for first time...