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Gilbert La Bine knew that cobalt stains on rocks are a pretty good indication of hidden, precious minerals. In 1930, remembering that he had read or heard somewhere that there were cobalt stains on the east shore of Great Bear Lake, he set out to see. He made part of the trip by dog sled, arrived at Great Bear Lake where the thermometer registered 70° below zero...
Said La Bine: "As I looked over the shore, I noticed a great wall there was stained with cobalt bloom. . . . Following along, I found tiny dark pieces of ore probably the size of plums. Looking more closely, I found the vein. I chipped it with my hammer, and here it was pitch blende." At that time, pitchblende was famed as a source of radium. Neither La Bine nor anyone else could then guess the greater significance of his find...
...David Cityans) was a showing of 28 oils by 41-year-old Dale Nichols, art editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and a nationally known painter of Christmas-cardish Midwestern landscapes and Greyhound bus ads. Nichols' specialties are heart-warming red barns, picturesque blue snowhills, tree branches reaching to cobalt skies...
Past the mouth of the Wabash, whose peaceful blue-green waters merged with the yellow Ohio, out on the Mississippi, with its streaming files of ducks and geese, the boat sailed on. "Red-yellow moon," wrote Irving, "silver star-calm, cobalt-green sky reflected in river . . . wide, treeless, prairie-trembling with heat-here not a tree or a shrub was to be seen -a view like that of the ocean . . . beautiful clear river, group of Indian nymphs half naked on banks...
This week Germany stood all but alone. Finland was following Rumania out of the war, more decisively than had feckless Bulgaria (see FOREIGN NEWS). With her went her priceless stores of nickel, manganese and cobalt. Fat, foolish Hungary lay open to the Russians. The "holy soil" of the Reich itself had already been torn by the tracks of U.S. tanks. The haze before the beast's eyes deepened. Soon night would shut...