Word: pit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week Illinois' campaign rattled on. Republican Dirksen, who once voted for the Marshall Plan, more recently denounced it as money poured down a "bottomless pit," hammered at "creeping socialism," at "bungling" at Yalta and Potsdam, at "appeasement, vacillation and weakness" which, he charged, led up to the Korean war. Scott Lucas went his weary, cautious way. He argued that victory in Korea had prevented World War III. He repudiated several important Fair Deal items such as socialized medicine and the Brannan Plan. The loyal and indefatigable Douglas chugged right & left in his station wagon, lifting his voice...
Shaft wheels halted, children stood silently in empty coal trucks and villagers tensely closed in on a pit official as he read aloud from a pink slip of paper: "There is no possibility of any of the men remaining in the district affected being alive . . . It was then unanimously decided that no course remained except to seal off the affected part of the pit. This work is now taking place...
...steel industry gets most of its iron ore from the vast ranges of northern Minnesota, where the rich, rust-like dust can be shoveled up from the ground. But by 1970, or sooner, the open-pit ranges of Minnesota will be scraped bare...
...which has never been developed-for lack of a cheap, practical way to extract it. Several years ago, researchers at the University of Minnesota perfected a method of crushing the rock, extracting the ore by magnets and compressing it into pellets containing 60% iron (v. 50% for the open-pit ores...
...merely won at Rook or Pit...