Word: steep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crossed a high ridge climbing an almost impossibly steep path covered with a thick layer of soft wet mud. The forest was soaking wet and the dripping mist in the treetops cast a sepulchral gloom over everything. Here we met a man, emaciated, filthy, saturated to the skin, staggering blindly forward, murmuring the word "Indoo," India, the goal to which he had been pressing literally for months. This Chinese soldier was alone, a thousand miles from home, and dying on his feet. Yet he was still going. The next man we came to was a sturdy young man, about...
Last week out of Canada came increasing indications that this terrific strain on U.S. reserves- so severe that at the current rate the Mesabi may be gutted in twelve years-will be eased. For at Steep Rock Lake, 100 miles to the north, Canadians, with the help of U.S. capital and engineering, are preparing to exploit a little Mesabi of their own, rich in high-grade...
Existence of some such deposit was suspected ever since the Mesabi was opened up a half century ago. But it was not till 1930 that a prospector and scout, Jules G. Cross, made a survey of the region, which led to the formation of the Steep Rock Iron Mines, Ltd. Backing the company is Cyrus Eaton, creator of Republic Steel, who is arranging a $7,500,000 bond issue...
...money will be used to blast new channels for the Seine River as a preliminary to draining Steep Rock Lake. Most of its 125 billion gallons of water will then be pumped out, its bottom stripped for open-pit mining. The Canadian Government has already appropriated some $5,000,000 for the erection of power lines and the financing of a railroad spur to lead from Steep Rock to Atikokan, which has rail connections with Lake Superior...
...mines from Rockefeller. Bethlehem has struck down into South America. Now, if Canada comes in, Big Steel's control of reserves-and perhaps its pocketbook-will be further affected. But for the U.S. economy as a whole, for the first time facing possible exhaustion of its finest ores, Steep Rock is still a net gain...