Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Protocol terms gave Ecuador 30,000 of a disputed 117,000-square-mile area of the arid mountains and steaming jungleland in the upper watershed of the Amazon River. Ecuador was also given free navigation rights on the Amazon and its tributaries (for potential oil shipments), but grumbled that pressure to sign had been severe. Peru did not grumble. To non-grumbling Peru Franklin Roosevelt sent a message praising "friendly consultation and mutual adjustment." To grumbling Ecuador went praise for "the spirit of cooperation and cordial collaboration...
...rather than smelting, for extracting iron from its ores is being developed by the Ford Motor Co. Reason: conventional smelting is not economical in the U.S. for ores which assay less than 40%, and Ford owns great deposits of low-grade (20-30%) ores near unused water power in Upper Michigan...
...Because a lot of water power is going to waste near the Upper Michigan deposits, says Henry Ford, "we could process the poor-grade ore right at the source and ship a pure product instead of shipping bulky ore all the way to our blast furnaces [at Dearborn...
...result of the war crisis which is calling many University men into the fighting forces, a number of vacancies have arisen in the Houses, and it has now become possible for members of the three upper classes previously living elsewhere to transfer to House rooms. Under a new ruling designed to fill the rooms deserted by men leaving College at the end of midyears, Dropped Freshmen and other upperclassmen formerly denied House membership may now apply...
...United Nations were not idle. Down from China marched troops of Chiang Kaishek, tattered, road-worn, weather-beaten and fit. They traveled in the classic Chinese manner-on foot and incredibly fast-covered 1,000 miles before going into position. Probably they were somewhere on the upper Thailand border, from which more Japs might still issue to strike directly at the Burma Road...