Word: ores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...butter plays this year have been simple fullback dives, quick-openers through the holes made by the two big tackles. These are All-Ivy Perry Wickstrom, and a 240-pounder named Abbott Lawrence, who sounds like he came from an Old Harvard family even if his home is Portland, Ore...
...bill not before Congress would be paricularly helpful in preventing re-enactment of the Baker case. The measure, introduced by Sen. Clifford Case (R-N.J.), and Sen. Maurine Neuberger
Since then, 17,200 men from 21 countries have labored and eight companies have invested $220 million to turn Nimba's jagged 111-acre summit into a massive mine. Last week huge shovels scooped Nimba's soft ore into 32-ton Haulpaks, native drilling teams dotted the mountainside and a fully automated crushing plant ground out ore for shipment to a man-made harbor at Buchanan...
...duwa -the sinister "little people" who have old men's faces and feet that turn backward. But Scottish Geologist Sandy Clark, a more prosaic fellow, found no such world of spirits when he scaled Nimba eight years ago. He found something almost as extraordinary: "a world of iron ore"-one of the largest reserves of high-grade ore (at least 260 million tons) ever discovered...
...companies have had a hand in building the Nimba facilities. The U.S.'s Raymond International Inc. laid the 167-mile railroad from Nimba to Buchanan and built a seaport there from breakwater up. The Netherlands' Phillips installed an electronic rail-traffic control system; Krupp made the ore-handling equipment. Aided by a maze of conveyor belts and closed-circuit TV control panels, LAMCO can load ore into a ship in less than nine hours after it has been mined. At the foot of Mount Nimba has grown up Liberia's third largest community, where most...