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Said Climax President Arthur H. Bunker: "Our plan is to be very active in uranium. The acquisition of property is continual...
...Risky Business. But Bunker, who knows that uranium is often a risky business, is not betting all his money on it. His company has set up a separate department of industrial development to invest in a whole new series of strategic metals. Climax owns thorium deposits in Colo rado, wants to expand into large-scale production of such other vital metals as nickel, cobalt and manganese, all needed for U.S. strategic stockpiles...
...Minus One: French Commanding Colonel Christian de la Croix de Castries calls his staff to a bunker in the heart of Dienbienphu. Four Viet Minh Communist divisions-about 40,000 men -supplied for 113 days by ant lines of coolies, have completed buildup. They are ready to attack De Castries' isolated, 15,-ooo-man garrison. "Messieurs" says De Castries, "please stand by tomorrow...
Between drinks he was drilled in secret codes, in how to make explosives out of homemade materials, how to make a time bomb out of a wristwatch, how to blow up ships (drill a hole in a chunk of coal, fill with explosive, drop coal in bunker. When fed to boilers, the explosion bursts the boilers). When Eddie was judged ready, the Germans strapped ?2,000 on his back, fitted him out with an English-made suit, shoes, detonators, wireless set, and an identity card salvaged from the dead of Dieppe. His mission: to blow up the De Havilland factory...
WORKING control of the famed Glenn L. Martin Co. has passed to its top officers, Chairman and President George M. Bunker and Financial Vice President J. Bradford Wharton Jr., who bought up 10% of the stock (217,152 shares) through a personal holding company. Bunker and Wharton, who have put the company on its feet, stand to clean up for their job. They also have options to buy another 102,000 shares at $9.75 to $10.25 (current price: $16.88), which could give them a capital gain of more than...