Word: ores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such teaching rare these days in U.S. public schools? Many high school principals feel that it may be. At their annual convention in Portland, Ore. last week, high school principals called for more English themes, even if teachers must enlist salaried assistants to help read and appraise them. At another meeting of U.S. school administrators in Atlantic City, N.J., Paul B. Diederich of the Educational Testing Service loosed a startling prediction: by 1970, U.S. colleges will be rejecting one-fourth of all applicants because they read and write so badly. Diederich's reason: soaring enrollment is killing English composition...
...Metropolitan France, of which it uses 6%, is no longer enough. Its search for additional sources of cheap power (and cheap raw materials) has also led it to Africa, where it joined an international consortium, including Olin-Mathieson, to build an aluminum plant in Cameroon, helped build an ore-processing plant in Guinea (with a housing development and community swimming pool), is planning still other plants in Guinea and the Republic of the Congo. Its Lacq plant will raise the company's aluminum capacity to 200,000 tons, about four times its 1949 capacity, but only half the company...
When voters in a Portland, Ore. suburb recently torpedoed a tax increase that would have provided more money for their schools, Superintendent of Schools Floyd Light knew just what the trouble was: Wilma Morrison, education editor of the union-struck Portland Oregonian, had not been around to push for the measure. Said Light darkly: "Her being out definitely hurt us. The story was not brought before the public...
...bows and sterns onto his German midsections, thus qualifying as "built in America." Total cost: less than $5,000,000 a vessel, a saving of 50% to 65%. So simple is the idea that other U.S. firms (e.g., American Ship Building) have ordered the midsections for several big ore carriers from Schlieker...
...previous SEC records in stock deals, which should have alerted SEC officials not to accept the stock registration in the first place. Oreclone's prospectus disclosed that two old SEC pen pals were closely related to the company: Sydney Newman, who was to get royalties on all ore concentrate sold by Oreclone, and Robert Rodman, father of the president and of the secretary-treasurer of the company. Both jointly submitted to SEC injunctions in another stock violation case, and both were described by Lefkowitz as having a "notorious background in the stock manipulation field." The real underwriter...