Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open the next day when we showed up at the office." The fear was justified: the ailing News (circ. 188,453) was losing between $75,000 and $80,000 a month. News Publisher Robert Smith thought he had found a way out of his trouble when erratic Coos Bay (Ore.) Times Publisher Sheldon F. Sackett put down a $20,000 deposit to buy the News and signed a contract to pay $1,525,000 for it. But Smith was forced to call off the deal when, as Smith said, Sackett "failed to put up financial and collateral requirements" (TIME...
...years since then, John Ripley Forbes has repeated that performance so many times that he has become the Johnny Appleseed of the museum world. He has badgered millionaires, begged and borrowed exhibits, set up children's museums from Portland. Ore. to Jacksonville. Fla. Last week, as visitors streamed into his new museum in San Jose, Calif., Forbes could chalk...
...mile dredged channel in the Orinoco, built (and paid for) by U.S. Steel to let ore ships reach the upriver iron mines, but destined to open southeast Venezuela to commerce...
...outbreak of war, it also includes such important capital goods as locomotives and tankers that are needed in the long-range execution of a war. Among the worst laggards on this list are taconite, 70% behind the goal; titanium, 50% behind; freight cars, 31%; diesel locomotives, 39%; ocean-going ore carriers, 97%, tankers, 74%. The trouble is that in most of the laggard categories industry is being deliberately cautious. Some of the items, such as copper and lead, are not in short supply now. In fact, prices are dropping because of heavy supplies pouring in from abroad. Thus, though...
...Portland, Ore. last week, President Zehntbauer, 69, showed off his 1954 women's line, already on display to catch the winter vacation trade. The suits, in cotton, rayon, wool and nylon, were trimmed with sequins, imitation pearls and rhinestones. They had such names as "Summer Siren" and "Caprice," and were priced from $8.95 to $32.50 (for "Diamond Mine." a rhinestone-studded suit in metallic colors). All would look good on a handsome woman, but would not necessarily make all women handsome. With his new line, President Zehntbauer thinks Jantzen will do even better than in record-breaking 1953) when...