Word: smelting
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...bicycles - runty, bowlegged little men in cheap, stained uniforms, half of them wearing spectacles, only one out of every 25 armed with a machine gun, the rest carrying .25-caliber rifles. They were drenched in old sweat - "you could smell a troop of Japs 100 feet away . . . they smelt like hell...
...grade ore reserves, mostly scattered throughout the West. Five years ago the U.S. sneered at the absurdity of autarchic economics when the Hermann Göring Works was built to use Germany's low-grade iron ore. The U.S. then had more rich ore than it could smelt. But in wartime every paper resource may be a real resource, and price is no object. If the U.S. is in for a long war, Ickes' adventure into autarchy may mean the difference between victory and defeat...
...Much U.S. ore, either low-grade or in small deposits, is untouched because no hitherto commercial methods* of treating it have been developed. Ickes proposes to turn small scattered iron-ore deposits into sponge iron by the gaseous reduction process, smelt the sponge iron in electric furnaces...
...took that long for Phelps Dodge to behead a mountain and lay bare the mile-long, 400-ft. thick clay ore body (below) for exploitation. This week Phelps Dodge is putting finishing touches on this new $35,000,000 Morenci mine in Arizona; next month it will start to smelt 6,500 tons of copper a month...
Congress was mixing one of its cure-all patent medicines last week for a social bellyache, the labor situation. Labor leaders did not like the whiffs they got from the brew. To A.F. of L. President William Green, the legislation smelt like "a violation of the Constitution." C.I.O. President Philip Murray called it an effort to clamp upon "the total American economy a rigid status of enforced labor." The May, Connally and Vinson bills, said labor, jeopardized the right to picket, established compulsory arbitration, deprived labor of its right to strike...