Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Putting into Portland, Ore. for repairs on his teeth, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas dropped into a dentist's chair, decided it was as good a place as any to reel off some mental floss. Samples : 1) he considers this month's successful assault of Kashmir's Nanga Parbat by German climbers a "far tougher'' feat than the Hillary-Tenzing conquest of Everest; 2) Syngman Rhee is the "George Washington" of Korea, and deserves America's sympathy and support, as does Mohammed Mossadegh, "the first great ruler in [Iran's] history...
Rogge reported that Ebey had 1) been chairman in 1947 of the California American Veterans Committee, an organization which, he charged, was laced with Communists; 2) been a member of the Portland, Ore. Urban League, and sponsor of an "intercultural program" of Negroes and whites while assistant superintendent of schools in Portland; 3) introduced in 1953 a banquet speaker who in 1945 had allegedly sponsored a dinner for Paul Robeson. Rogge claimed to represent hundreds of "taxpayers, school patrons and citizens," but refused te say who they were. Though the slur upon the non-Communist Urban League was obviously absurd...
...foreign-controlled sources abroad, has a big stake in a huge new manganese deposit of its own. The deposit, estimated at 50 million tons, was discovered in French Equatorial Africa by a French development company (Comilog), which is 49% owned by Big Steel. U.S. Steel will help dig the ore, lay a railroad to bring it 250 miles to the seacoast...
Amid national excitement over gushing oil wells, ore-rich mines, expanding factories and mammoth power projects, many Canadians tend to forget that their biggest industry is still based on the nation's trees. The output of Canada's pulp and paper industry last year hit a walloping $1¼ billion. In domains now pushed clear up into Arctic watersheds, the industry pays more workers more wages, and operates on more invested capital than any other business in Canada. But in the new Canada the venerable giant, in pace with headlong progress, has gone streamlined...
Traveling Man. In Portland, Ore., missing from home for a day and a half, eight-year-old Richard Warwick was finally found several miles away when he pedaled a pilfered tricycle up to the Maynard Motel, flashed a $26 bankroll, asked for a room for the night...