Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manufactures Committee were two bills for human relief: 1) a $250,000,000 appropriation sponsored by the committee's chairman, Senator Robert Marion La Follette Jr. of Wisconsin who likes to play a sort of political Robin Hood; 2) a $375.000.000 appropriation backed by Senator Edward Prentiss Costigan of Colorado, Virginia-born Harvardman, old-time reformer, Bull Mooser, Anti-Saloon Leaguer, longtime (1917-28) Tariff Commissioner. Having no stake in the proceedings, the rest of the committee went home for the holidays, leaving Senators La Follette and Costigan to prepare what amounted to a record on reasons for relief...
Captain Benyaurd Bourne Wygant, U.S.N., professor of Naval Science and Tactics, has just been ordered by the Bureau of Navigation of the Navy Department to the Puget Sound Navy Yard in Bremerton, Washington, to assume command of the U. S. S. Colorado, which is undergoing a general overhauling. Further orders from the Bureau of Navigation reveal that Captain Adolphus Watson, U.S.N., will relieve Captain Wygant of his duties with the Harvard Naval R. O. T. C. Unit...
Captain Wygant goes to sea after being in charge of the Naval Science Department for three years during which he has done much to raise the standard and efficiency of the course. His new command, the U. S. S. Colorado, now having regular inspection and repairs is one of the newest and best equipped ships in the Navy, as it is one of the three American battleships armed with 16 inch guns. Captain Wygant has an excellent record, has served under Admiral Sims throughout the war during which he was in command of the two destroyers, and engaged in convey...
...company. Denver Pacific Railroad. Its president and vice president were given as Coleman Crenshaw and Thomas L. Hall, both of Salt Lake City, but last week no details were available on how they proposed to do their financing. The proposed Denver Pacific, it was stated, would follow the Colorado River Valley through Glenwood Springs, Rifle, Palisade and Grand Junction, would cross Utah, passing through Moab, and would touch San Bernardino, Calif. New territory would be opened, said the company's sponsors; the route from Denver to the sea would be shortened...
...world's supply of radium is a little less than 1 Ib. It is worth about $23,000,000. Several hundred tons of carnotite or pitchblende are required to produce one ounce of radium, after a laborious, costly process. Decade ago Colorado and Utah carnotite deposits had made the U. S. the world's largest radium producer but richer ore was found in the Belgian Congo and Radium Beige soon had established a monopoly. The Belgians have retorted that when the U. S. produced it the price was twice as high...