Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since they arrived in Medford, Ore. in 1949, ex-Navy Pilots Harvey Brandau and Eugene Kooser have been stirring up clouds of trouble. Flying war-weary fighter planes, they have been "seeding" the thunderheads over Rogue River Valley with a secret formula they called "goop." According to the fruit farmers who have hired the flyers, the seeding causes rainfall and prevents crop-ruining hail. But many of the valley's hay and cattle ranchers feel that the flyers are nothing but cloudbusters, robbing dryland farmers of rain...
...total industrial production of France, Germany, Italy and the Benelux nations, and provides work for one out of every ten of their workers -had actually been brought under a single command. By so doing, the plan had: 1) established a common market for coal, iron ore, scrap and steel; 2) eliminated customs duties, quotas, currency controls and double pricing. In long-divided Europe, that in itself was a very big accomplishment...
...Iron Ore. France, which used to subsidize its own users with the low price of 850 francs a ton (while outsiders paid 1,380 francs and could get little of it), now charges one price (1,250 francs) to all. Result: production has gone up 10%, and Belgian steelmakers, for instance, can now get adequate supplies...
...others: Hartford Courant Editor Herbert Brucker, Indianapolis News Managing Editor Eugene S. Pulliam, Eugene (Ore.) Register-Guard Editor William Tugman...
...TIME, Oct. 20), the overpriced metals began losing some of their altitude. Last week, in the wake of the Korean truce, they were dropping again. Lead and zinc were selling near their June 1950 levels; tin had fallen 35.8% below its February high of $1.21½ a Ib.; chromite ore was down 42.6% to $56 a ton and still falling...