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...Seven Islands' rain-drenched waterfront. A button was pushed, and rumbling machinery dumped carloads of red rock into a freighter's hold. When the hold was full, the ship sailed for Philadelphia to deliver to U.S. steel mills the first iron ore from Canada's remote Ungava iron fields, as rich as and perhaps vaster than the once great Mesabi Range...
...pushbutton ceremony climaxed one of the great hands-across-the-border industrial ventures of modern times. As long as half a century ago, geologists were sure that iron ore lay buried beneath the lichens of barren Ungava, but there seemed no practical and profitable way of moving it from the subarctic wilderness. In 1942 Jules Robert Timmins, Montreal gold-mining magnate, decided to take the challenge. Last week, as he watched the first boatload of Ungava ore leave for the U.S., Jules Timmins, 66, could claim success. "It is the realization of [my] dreams, hopes and plans," he said...
Once he had proved he had a commercial ore body, Timmins had to sell it to the steel industry. He had already formed a partnership with M. A. Hanna Co. of Cleveland and enlisted the help of Hanna's then president, George Humphrey, to promote the Ungava project in the U.S. Steelmen in the U.S. were beginning then to realize how seriously two world wars had depleted the U.S. Mesabi Range. Humphrey and Timmins managed to convince some of them that Ungava could be a new Mesabi. Six steel companies (Republic, Armco, National. Youngstown, Wheeling, Hanna) agreed to finance...
...Humanity is so constituted that it must work to be healthy and happy." Following his own precept, Eaton has another deal cooking. He has staked a claim and financed exploration of an iron-ore field at Ungava Bay in Northern Quebec, and plans to ship ore from it to Europe. Eaton, who makes no small plans, says expansively: "It's perfectly colossal...
...Want a Highway?" The Ungava project involved Humphrey in one of his rare appearances before a congressional committee, to testify in favor of the St. Lawrence Seaway. He admitted he had once been against the seaway and now favored it. "It's perfectly simple gentlemen," he said. "You've got some material up there that you need down here. The only question is do you want a highway between the points...