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...bought a French provincial mansion on a mountaintop overlooking California's San Fernando Valley. But retirement was too dull for the onetime head of the War Production Board. Last week Nelson came down from his mountain to become president, treasurer and a director of Colorado's Consolidated Caribou Silver Mines, Inc. In with him as vice president went Richard J. Reynolds, son of the late tobacco tycoon; and as director, Joseph B. Keenan, ex-Assistant U.S. Attorney General and prosecutor in the Tokyo war criminal trials...
...Hand. But the job didn't seem a public service to the New York Journal-American's Financial Editor Leslie Gould. He hinted that Nelson's name was being used to help sell 800,000 shares of Caribou common stock at $1.25 a share, which was, he thought, "not the kind of stock to be sold to the public." The real powers behind the scene, wrote Columnist Gould, are two Russian-born brothers named Alexander and Boris Pregel, who "are listed as owning 321,000 common . . . costing them $5,350 or an average...
...Pregels? No shadow men, they run Manhattan's Canadian Radium & Uranium Corp. Contrary to Gould, they said that they had invested $145,000 in reopening Caribou (which had been abandoned in the late '20s), after they found uranium-bearing pitchblende in the tailings of the mine. During World War II, Boris Pregel, 57, was general agent for Canada's Eldorado Mining & Refining Co., which supplied the Manhattan Project with nearly all the uranium mined on the North American continent...
...explorers, he built an igloo nearby and settled down with his family for a sleep-only to be awakened shortly afterward by an uninvited anthropologist. While the "lemming-faced" white intruder busily sketched everything in sight, hospitable Ernenek brought out his choicest delicacy, "a thoroughly chewed hodgepodge of caribou eyes, ptarmigan dung, auk slime and fermented bear brain," which the visitor rudely refused. Then wife Asiak had a happy idea: "Maybe he is not hungry. Maybe he just wants to laugh with a worthless woman." Beamed Ernenek: "Make yourself beautiful...
...women who come for the summer fishing, or for the fall hunting (partridge, duck, caribou, moose), Newfoundland has long been an unspoiled sportland. This year-Newfoundland's first as a Canadian province-thousands of tourists who want neither to fish nor hunt will view the magnificent scenery of the island (42,734 sq. mi.) and get a glimpse of the picturesque life of its people...