Word: ores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greater than that of Britain. From Li's neat office in Embracing Kindness Hall-a two-story Manchu dynasty palace in Peking's Forbidden City-have poured the blueprints and directives that marshaled China's millions into antlike armies to dig canals, mine coal and iron ore, and work the soil of 24,000 spartan people's communes. It has been clear for some time that the Great Leap was really a leap into disaster, but the extent of the failure is only now becoming plain. By fanatically stressing industry, Peking nearly wrecked China...
...expensive new hydroelectric plants, the gas find improved prospects for development of New Zealand industry, previously stunted for want of a cheap domestic fuel source. Some New Zealanders even launched into heady talk of using the gas to generate the power for electric furnaces that could extract iron ore from the hitherto useless mineral-laced sands of Taranaki province. But in the short run, what raised New Zealand's hopes the most was Holyoake's report that the Kapuni gas carried with it a substantial quantity of light oil which, if it can be fed into...
...Moving out of his father's shadow, Gilbert W. Humphrey, 45, president of Cleveland's M. A. Hanna and son of former Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey, announced that Hanna plans to divest itself of operating control of its vast coal, iron ore, and shipping interests to set up as a closed-end investment company. Board chairman of the reorganized firm, which will have assets of $500 million and a liquid working capital of $60 million to spend on diversifying its investments: "Bud" Humphrey...
Already, substantial industrial development has started, including a recently completed dam on the Caroni River, a government-owned steel mill, and railroad installations which bring iron ore down the Orinoco...
Spaced across Siberia, at approximately 1,000-mile intervals, are three other industrial complexes. One is based on the coal and iron ore of the Kuznetsk Basin, the second on the hydroelectric power of the Angara River, the third on the mines of Yakutia...