Word: ores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ocean's first regularly scheduled commercial container cargo. In mid-March, U.S. Lines will begin weekly sailings from New York to Europe with the first of four vessels specially fitted to stack containers in their holds like bricks in a wall. American Export Isbrandtsen Lines is converting two ore carriers for container service. San Francisco-based American President Lines last week announced plans to switch nearly all of its transpacific freighter service to container ships...
...entire Japanese economy is at stake in such far-flung horse trades. Despite its industrial strength, Japan is virtually barren of natural resources, depends on imports for 99% of its petroleum, 96% of its iron ore, 85% of its copper and 75% of its zinc. Last year the island nation imported 205 million tons of raw materials, 20% more than in 1964, at a cost of $3.2 billion...
...ore to support Japan's steel industry, the world's third largest, Japanese companies have purchase agreements covering five fields in Australia, have put up $21 million to develop iron sources in India, will get more ore from Goa and Brazil to ensure a total 50 million tons a year. Coke to reduce it will come from Australia...
Flaherty was born in 1884 with an iron spoon in his mouth. Son of a Minnesota mining engineer, he went to work as a prospector at 16. At 26 he made his first penetration of the far north-outwardly to search for ore in the Hudson Bay country, inwardly to search for an arctic ascesis. He found it among the Eskimos. During the next nine years they led him on a hundred expeditions and taught him to live as men live when they have nothing in life but life. "In the long arctic night," a friend later said...
...coffee for export income. In a similar 51%-49% joint venture with Bethlehem Steel, he has not only built one of the world's most successful manganese mining operations, but has managed to avoid the attacks that Brazilian nationalists have made on other foreign interests. By pushing iron-ore exports, Antunes expects Brazil in time to earn enough abroad to import coal, and so become one of the world's major producers of steel...