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Word: steeped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 30, 1942 | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Little Mesabi | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Little Mesabi | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Little Mesabi | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Little Mesabi | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

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