Word: ores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tighter controls on government spending in order to cut Brazil's treasury deficit, less new currency to be printed, some much-needed overhauling of money-losing state-owned enterprises, a serious attempt at tax reform and improved tax collection, curbs on coffee overproduction, expansion of other exports (iron ore, meat, manufactures), encouragement of private investment from overseas...
...century ago, miserly August Thyssen gained hold of high-grade ore supplies in Sweden and France and built ore-skimpy Germany into a major steel power. His son, Fritz Thyssen, was the first industrialist to support Hitler, but in 1939 denounced him and spent most of the war in a Nazi internment camp; he died in 1951. Fritz Thyssen's widow, Amelie, now 85, proved resourceful: she found loopholes in the Allied decartelization decrees and gradually welded together much of the old steel dynasty. From her Bavarian castle, Frau Thyssen today controls 52% of Phoenix stock...
Hell & Glory. Like its name, the company's history is linked to Stora Kopparberg-a great subterranean copper "mountain" of unusually pure copper ore located among the gloomy forests of central Sweden. Toward the end of the Dark Ages, when copper was needed to arm Europe's growing armies, hundreds of men migrated to the copper mountain. At the pithead sprang up the village of Falun, Sweden's first industrial center, where the company still has its headquarters. At first each miner dug and smelted the ore himself, but by 1347 King Magnus Eriksson had granted...
...start publishing (see above), the city's 13-week-old newspaper strike seemed to go on and on. And despite the fact that Cleveland's unions were anxious to settle, Cleveland's 14-week-old strike also seemed endless. But neither city has anything on Portland, Ore. There, an almost forgotten dispute has dragged on since November 1959, and is not one pica closer to settlement than it was when it began. But unlike New York or Cleveland, Portland has not been without its newspapers for one strikebound day. It is, in fact, the only U.S. city...
...squat little Japanese freighter, the Taian Maru, churned through the Pacific last week on a historic journey. On its way from Coos Bay, Ore., to Puerto Rico with a load of Pacific Northwest lumber, the Taian Maru is the first foreign flag ship in more than four decades to carry cargo from one U.S. port to another...