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...boulder gave them a Geiger count of 10,000. Then they noticed that a landslide ^ from a 200-ft. hill had pushed the "hot" uranium rocks down toward the creek. Said Cab Driver Clem Walton: Nature has done a remarkable thing for us." Working up the hillside, with Geigers clicking, they got counts up to a fantastic 48,000. The prospectors promptly staked out a mile-square claim, named it Mary Kathleen after McConachie's wife, who had died ten days before. As word of the strike hit the newspapers, 14 companies began bidding for the lease. It looked...
Head of the "Solid State Group" of the United states Geological Survey in Washington, D.C., Garrels has done field work in Newfoundland, the Mississippi Valley, the Boulder river area of Montana, and the Colorado Plateaus...
...being dug. Before stability was reached, more than 250 acres of the adjacent slopes, complete with trees and scenery, slid greasily into the cut. More slides closed the canal briefly in the year it opened. 1914, and again in 1915 and 1932. But Contractor's Hill, a vast boulder in the ooze, stood like Gibraltar...
Stitch in No Time. A 141-needle knitting machine for home use has been brought out by the Regina Hand Knitting Machine Co. of Boulder, Colo. The manufacturer claims that the gadget can knit ten times as fast as an individual. Price...
...sculptor to do a new figure for the top of the 97-ft. shaft of the Yorktown, Va. monument commemorating Washington's victory over Cornwallis, its eye fell on Norwegian-born Oskar Hansen, 61. Hansen was a monument-maker of some repute: he did the figures at Boulder Dam, a World War I memorial in Hinsdale, Ill., and a Columbus memorial in Rio de Janeiro. What was needed at Yorktown was a new statue of Liberty to replace the one decapitated by lightning...