Word: ores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ashland, Ore., Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, All's Well That Ends Well, and Henry IV, Part...
Nearness to the huge Mesabi iron-ore range and Midwestern grain fields has made Duluth, the western terminus of the St. Lawrence Seaway, one of the busiest ports in the U.S. But Duluth (pop. 106,-800) has another asset, which is making its own unique contribution to the growth of the thriving city: four big scholarship funds, including two in operation for the first time this year. They have raised the educational level of its high school system, and will support 286 Minnesota students on college scholarships this year, of whom all but 72 are graduates of Duluth high schools...
...They are: ¶James Wright Hunt's $1,000,000 trust, set up in 1949 at the death of the shy Quaker attorney and amateur bird watcher whose fortune began when land he accepted as a legal fee later turned out to hold rich iron-ore deposits. ¶Businessman (real estate, mining, investments) Marshall W. Alworth's $1,000,000 memorial to his parents, limited to students majoring in mathematics, engineering, the physical sciences, and medicine, which has aided a total of 270 students in twelve years, including some whose grants saw them through eight years of schooling...
...volume was still one-third below the 29 million tons that the Canadian-American Joint Tolls Committee originally predicted for 1960. Among the reasons why the 1960 projection proved over-optimistic was a 20-day longshoremen's strike at U.S. lake ports and a slowdown in ore shipments during the recession. But other difficulties are more chronic and basic. Some shippers complain about slow, costly stevedoring at Seaway ports. Others have been discouraged by erratic shipping schedules and time-consuming accidents and stoppages, notably in the Welland Canal, which is the Seaway's Scylla and Charybdis...
...from a year ago. Other regional centers profit in some ways only to lose in others. Buffalo's ocean tonnage has doubled, but its great milling business has sagged because Midwest grain carriers now head straight overseas without stopping at Buffalo. Lake Erie steelmakers enjoy cheaper ore imports but suffer stiffer foreign competition, because imported steel is cheaper when brought in through the St. Lawrence...