Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scores of political and business leaders. In Venezuela, where everybody from President Marcos Perez Jimenez down told him that they hoped Congress would not cripple their $2.5 billion oil industry by restricting petroleum imports, he also managed to get away for a jeepback tour of the vast eastern ore fields from which Bethlehem and U.S. Steel hope some day to draw much of the U.S.'s iron-ore supply...
ELIMINATION of shipbuilding subsidies from the 1954 budget (TIME, June 15) has already thrown some shipyard work overseas. American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. is converting three freighters to combination tanker-ore carriers in Japan instead of in the U.S. Japanese bids for the job came to about half the lowest U.S. bid ($3,000,000 a ship...
...Bodo" Athanassiades, the $17 million contract was all part of a day's work. At 60, he is Greece's top tycoon (worth anywhere up to $80 million). His enterprises run from alpha (for ammunition) to omega (for ore); he is the biggest Greek producer of chemicals, glass, minerals, munitions and wines. Bodo runs, in addition, a string of shipyards, fertilizer and textile plants scattered from Thrace to Crete. His payroll of 14,000 workers gives employment to 8% of Greece's manufacturing work force...
CARDANO: THE GAMBLING SCHOLAR, With a translation of Cardano's Book on Games of Chance (249 pp.)-Oysteln Ore-Princeton University...
Ironically, Cardano comes alive today because of his gambling. Author Oystein Ore, a Yale mathematics professor, has disinterred the eccentric genius to show that Cardano's book on the subject contains some of the first brave steps toward the modern theory of probability...