Word: ores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pomona Elementary's problem is shared in less acute form by buildings in at least a dozen other Colorado communities and by Grand Junction itself, an important uranium-producing town until the ore petered out in the mid-1960s. The villain is uranium "tailings" -the gray, sandy debris that piled up in small mountains beside the mills as refuse from the mining operations. The tailings were known to contain some residual radiation, but below levels the AEC then considered to be a health or safety hazard. As the town boomed along with its uranium mines, Grand Junction contractors seized...
...group of American firms, including United States Steel Corp., signed contracts to sell $65 million worth of ore-mining and oil-drilling equipment to the Russians in return for $60 million worth of Soviet nonferrous metals. Two weeks earlier, the Commerce Department had approved export licenses for American firms to ship $528 million worth of heavy equipment intended for the Soviet Union's new Kama River truck factory. Meanwhile, the Nixon Administration announced the sale of $130 million worth of corn and other cattle "feed to the Russians...
Drop in the Samovar. The cracks are still narrow. In 1970 the U.S. sold $118 million worth of goods to the Soviets, mostly hides, pulp, aluminum oxides and machinery. In return, Americans imported $72 million in Russian goods, principally sable skins, fuels, aluminum scrap, chrome ore and other metals. That was a mere drop in the samovar for the Soviet Union, which does about $5 billion worth of business a year with other non-Communist countries...
SUSAN GREEN Portland, Ore...
MARY K. MARK Portland, Ore...