Word: colorados
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Whenever he thought about those three Rocky Mountain peaks, Geologist Leslie W. LeRoy of the Colorado School of Mines got mad. In 1869, it seemed, some Harvard professor had come along to survey the Colorado Rockies, and with typical Ivy League impertinence had named a few of them. The highest peak he measured thus became Mt. Harvard (14,399 ft.), the next highest Mt. Yale (14,172), and a few years later, a third peak naturally was named Mt. Princeton (14,177). Not one Colorado peak bore the name of a Colorado campus...
Last week, accompanied by three friends, Harr climbed to the top once again, there solemnly planted a banner with the strange device, "M." Henceforth, Mt. Harvard, Mt. Yale and Mt. Princeton will have company-a proud peak that will soon appear on the maps as Colorado Mines...
...Guernsey Dam in Wyoming, followed it up with another for Deadwood Dam in the mountains of central Idaho. The experience gave M-K the know-how to tackle the biggest of them all in 1931-the Arizona-Nevada giant Hoover Dam that was to rise 726 ft. above the Colorado River, generate power at the rate of 4 billion kw. a year. On Deadwood, M-K used some of the first bulldozers, began testing diesel trucks, gas-powered revolving shovels, learned to haul equipment over mountains as high as 7,400 ft. on log roads. Even more important...
ATLAS CORP. is adding uranium to its interests. President Floyd B. Odium has bought a large group of mining claims owned by Prospector Charles A. Steen (TIME, Aug. 3) on the rich Colorado Plateau near Moab, Utah. The claims will be worked by the Lisbon Uranium Mining Corp., 60% of which has just been bought by three Odium subsidiaries in a stock and cash deal...
...certain that miles of drear range would be green, at least for a time, this spring, and great areas of winter wheat that had escaped complete ruin got a new lease on life. Drought persisted in central and western Kansas, much of southwestern and central Nebraska. Most of Colorado and New Mexico got little if any rain. Even the newly dampened land would need more rain to insure the crops that were being so blithely planted this week. "But," the Amarillo Daily News reported, "the people are grinning like a mule eating cactus...