Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This telegram from TIME'S correspondent in Portland, Ore. refers to the lady pictured above. She has had a stormy career in recent months, and I'd like to tell you how TIME helped bring about a happy ending to her story...
...remember reading in the Art section (TIME, July 6) that this statue had been purchased from a Manhattan dealer for the city of Salem, Ore. The money was to come from the life savings that Carroll L. Moores, a Salem janitor, had left in trust for the purpose of erecting "a monument...in memory of early Oregon pioneers." The citizens of modern Salem, however, saw newspaper photographs of the sculpture and protested. The nude bronze figure was a far cry from the sunbonneted frontierswoman they had envisioned. Said a Salem housewife: "I would have a difficult time explaining...
...their next visit to the mountain, the two pilots took along Geologist Stephen Melihercsik. When he saw the ore he caught the pilots' excitement. "What a beast!" he exclaimed. "Terrific!" It was iron and titanium ore. The three men formed a partnership, and over the next few weeks, bought 70 mining claims...
Promising Situation. While Franz was straightening out production, Allen built up C.F. & I.'s corporate structure. He bought a plate and pipe plant in the burgeoning Delaware Valley (TIME, June 8), a pig iron and iron ore company in Pennsylvania. Last year he bought Newark's 112-year-old John A. Roebling's Sons Co., primarily a maker of wire rope, and an engineering firm. These acquisitions not only gave C.F. & I. diversification, but also made it a well-integrated organization...
...nomadic Turks swept in from the open steppes in the 11th century and settled themselves in Asia Minor on the ruins of half a dozen cosmopolitan civilizations. Here, before the Turkish conquerors descended, the Hittites (2000 B.C.) first mined, smelted and fashioned iron ore into weapons; the kingdom of Lydia (whose most famous ruler was a man named Croesus) first coined money, and Greeks fought Trojans over Helen of Troy (though prosaic modern historians insist that they really fought for control of the Dardanelles). Near one city alone-Izmir, the ancient Smyrna-are mosaics from the cave where sightless Homer...