Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lakes still lives up to the poet's praise. The world's largest expanse of fresh water, Lake Superior has managed to maintain much of its purity because it has attracted relatively few polluting industries. An exception: the Reserve Mining Co.'s ore-processing plant at Silver Bay, Minn., dumps 67,000 tons of pulverized taconite waste, or "tailings," into the lake every...
...Justice Department has filed suit in federal court, demanding that the $350 million Silver Bay plant stop violating the Federal Water Quality Act of 1965. The action, brought at the request of the Environmental Protection Agency's William Ruckelshaus, is considered a major test of the Nixon Administration's willingness to combat wealthy and influential polluters. Says Ruckelshaus: "Lake Superior is a priceless natural resource, and we are committed to save...
After Minnesota set out to enforce its own water-pollution standards in the late 1960s, Reserve resisted in court and won, on the grounds that the state had not proved that the Silver Bay plant was polluting the lake. (That ruling is still being appealed.) A series of conferences among federal and state water-quality agencies finally concluded in 1970 that the taconite tailings were killing the organisms on which the lake's fish feed. But it was not until last year that Ruckelshaus formally demanded that Reserve present a plan to stop polluting the lake within six months...
...Kennedy and Johnson who took over as president of the Board of Trade nearly five years ago. In order to increase trading during periods when speculative activity in farm goods is slack, Wilson has moved the board into making a futures market for such nonagricultural products as plywood and silver...
...Vance. He disobeyed orders, falsifying the ship's position reports to get closer to shore so he could fire his 3-in. guns at imaginary Viet Cong installations-more than once interfering with the missions of larger ships. He also forced his officers to recommend him for a Silver Star...