Word: ores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expanding tax base, plus the oil taxes and royalties, Alaska will finally have an opportunity to develop further its enormous natural resources. The state's challenge will be to find much more orderly ways of tapping its large reserves of fluoride and tungsten, rich deposits of copper, iron ore and zinc, plus at least 1 trillion tons of coal-enough to supply the U.S. for about 1,800 years at current consumption rates...
...Ford's market. He was very proud of Luanda's Ford dealership, Robert Hudson Ford, and their $20 million parts warehouse. His impression of the countryside was that "parts of it are very scenic, but most only reminds you that there are tons of bauxite and iron ore under...
There is a distinct possibility that under the present unsettled conditions, the Angolan government may be unable to exercise control over multinational operations as they attempt to extract the oil, bauxite and iron ore. That is a worry common to many African governments because of their chronic instability, limited authority, and minimal revenues...
...bombers that devastated much of Indochina before Congress grounded them in August 1973; barracks at huge Travis Air Force Base in Northern California; an Evangelical church in the sere hills of Los Gatos, 50 miles south of San Francisco; a beer hall in Mount Angel, Ore., where Benedictine sisters from a nearby priory were attending the confused, weary children, many of them polio victims...
...week's end several planeloads of evacuees had reached the U.S. mainland. The Christian Church in Los Gates, south of San Francisco, suddenly found itself providing food and shelter for some 150 Vietnamese. In Mount Angel, Ore. (pop. 2,200), townspeople had expected to take care of 40 crippled Vietnamese children. But five yellow school buses disgorged an additional 133 refugees, including some adults. Cots were quickly installed in the Oktoberfest beer hall...