Word: brigham
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After the Mormons founded Salt Lake City, Mormon Leader Brigham Young looked out from his temple and concluded the church would do well to get into the money-changing business. Up and down the valley the "Gentiles" (non-Mormons) were taking the lead in opening rich mines, establishing basic industries, and providing banking services to Brigham's band. Moreover. Mormon businessmen needed capital in quantities that only the church would provide. Accordingly, in 1873 Young founded a Mormon bank, and the Latter Day Saints became the only U.S. religious institution to get into ranking...
...Zion's First National Bank to a group of private businessmen headed by Norge Chairman Judson S. Sayre, Kennecott Director Leland B. Flint, and Utah Loan Company Executive Roy W. Simmons. Sale price: $9,818,314. The explanation from the Mormon leaders: the time has passed when Brigham Young's Latter-Day Saints need place their trust only in church-backed business institutions...
...Countdown. It all began in 1957 when the null people of Brigham City heard without much interest that an East Coast outfit with a peculiar name, Thiokol Chemical Corp., planned to build some sort of plant on a nearby desert. Few realized that the newcomer would turn their isolated, sheep-and-sugar-beet town into a booming center of U.S. rocketry. Today the rocket plant's employees number more than 3,000, flood Brigham City's roads with traffic and its schools with children. Ranch-style homes for engineers, chemists, physicists and mathematicians are spreading into the beet...
...Brigham City plant began as a research center and pilot plant for production of rocket engines filled with the rubbery solid fuel that was Thiokol's first contribution to rocketry. It has grown into 84 smallish structures scattered over miles of desert, but it still reflects the basic simplicity that is solid fuel's chief advantage over liquid. The liquid-fuel rocket engines that push the Thor and Atlas must be static-tested with their flames shooting downward, which requires massive, well-anchored test stands to resist the upward thrust. Their liquid fuel and oxidizer call for pumps...
Debaters will come from as far west as the University of California (Berkeley), the University of Texas, Rice Institute, and Brigham Young University, according to Albert W. Alschuler '62, public relations director for the Debate Council...