Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Counting U.S. Senate seats that they expected to win this fall, Democrats underestimated the power of plump, matronly Fern Armitage Johnson, wife (for 47 years) of Colorado's Democratic Senator Edwin Johnson. Big Ed has never lost an election and seemed sure to win again in November. But after 18 years in Washington, Mrs. Johnson felt homesick for Colorado. Last week Big Ed announced: "Mrs. Johnson has developed a complex about living longer in Washington, so retirement is a must...
...making it a byproduct of its normal business, International Minerals makes the old idea pay new dividends. Florida has the world's richest-known phosphate deposits, and the AEC says that, suitably developed, the uranium from phosphates would be able to compete with that from the Colorado ores...
...benefit of the rich, and how it oppresses the poor." Douglas pointed to a proposed reduction in the federal tax on cabarets. Asked he: "How many workingmen go to the Stork Club, the '23' Club,* and other such places, where gay blades like the Senator from Colorado are wont to congregate...
Good Quaker Douglas was on his feet in protest:. "Mr. President, being a devout member of a religious faith, I must say that I have not shot craps, as the Senator from Colorado intimates...
...uranium, or even worked their claims. Nevertheless, early investors have not lost money. The trick has been to get in on the ground floor of a new issue and then unload at double or triple the price to latecomers. The big lure is that there is uranium in the Colorado Plateau, and in some places, lots of it. All the penny plungers dream of the day when their company makes the big strike-and their penny stocks suddenly are worth dollars...