Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McMinnville, Ore...
...been so much expectancy-with caution, this time-for peace. The fishing was good too. In the gulf, off the coast of Louisiana, speckled trout were swarming in the bays and bayous, and tarpon appeared a full month earlier than usual. Said Bill Tugman, editor of the weekly Reedsport (Ore.) Port Umpqua Courier: "The salmon are running and the trout and striped bass, and they even say the shad feel like taking a fly this year. So let Moscow do its worst." The Last Sardine. This was no sudden mood that had swept across the nation...
...been growing for months. Bomb shelters were on sale in Los Angeles, but hardly anyone was buying them. Californians were more interested in buying swimming pools-at the rate of 25,000 a year. Mrs. C. T. Higgins of Portland, Ore., who four years ago had the city's first private, backyard underground shelter, granted that the family had been thinking about converting it into a walk-in Deepfreeze. Oregon Journal Staffer Doug Baker made an admission in print: he had eaten the last can of sardines out of the family survival...
Bethlehem invested some $20 million stripping off the overburden, constructing ore-loading docks at Picton, 64 miles to the south, and building a mill at the mine site to convert the low-grade (37.5%) ore to pellets testing 65% iron. With ready access to rail transport (through a specially built C.N.R. spur) and a 211-mile water haul through Lake Ontario, the mine emerged as an economical source of ore for Bethlehem's Lackawanna plant, near Buffalo...
...world's hungry steel mills gulp away the known supplies of high-grade ore, the Marmora operation may point the way to development of other well-located deposits of low-grade ore...