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...Sure enough, the rocks contained streaks of a low-grade uranium ore called carnotite. Paddy staked a 160-acre claim for himself, a few more for his sons, and waited for the Government to come and give him $10,000. He didn't get it; the big bonus is offered only to those who find a deposit of high-grade ore, such as pitchblende. But his discovery, made at the 7,000-foot level on a huge, reddish mesa called Haystack Mountain (only 100 miles from the Los Alamos atomic project), set off a uranium rush which took Grants...
...World War II veterans' bonus was irresistible. Montana, Oregon and West Virginia voted themselves onto the list of 18 states which already have authorized such jackpots. Veterans in Oklahoma spearheaded a decisive vote in another direction-against a referendum urging world federalism...
...plan stands, club participants will receive no bonus points for playing on winning team sports, though in individual sports the bonus points will still be credited to winning players...
...Veterans of Future Wars, an organization of students with 1A draft status, has been revived on the Princeton campus. At a meeting Tuesday night in the senior room of the Nassau Tavern over a hundred Princeton undergraduates banded together behind a program which calls for a $1,000 government bonus to all potential draftees...
Thanks mainly to bonus Pitchers Curt Simmons (15-7) and Robin Roberts (16-5), as well as spectacular relief pitching by Jim Konstanty (10-4), the Phillies have pushed ahead of their early season promise, when shrewd, hustling Manager Eddie Sawyer was insisting they were just a good bet for third (TIME...