Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Denver's 17 players, 11 are from Canada, three from Minnesota, and one each from Massachusetts, Florida, and Colorado...
...just as Coolidge returns, his ex-partner, two-year starter Ed Mrkonich, appears out. Mrkonich skated yesterday for the first time since he injured his ankle against Colorado, but it is very doubtful whether he will play tomorrow. Definitely out is Tony Patton, who ag- gravated his shoulder injury throwing a check two days...
...million worth of chemical plants, and $40 million more will be spent on new plants there in the next two years. Sprouting skyscrapers attested to Denver's new role as an oil capital, as new fields opened up in the area; 250 miles away, on the Colorado Plateau, an entirely new industry-at once somber and all-promising-was thriving. Uranium mining and processing, which employed fewer than five dozen men on the plateau in 1948, last year had a payroll of 8,000 and was a $100 million-a-year business...
...Whether Colorado's uranium would ultimately be used for peace or war depended on many questions and many men. But U.S. businessmen would be ready for either eventuality, thanks to something that happened on a chill May day last year in Arco, Idaho. That was the day a new kind of atomic reactor, built by Westinghouse, was first operated successfully. The reactor, pilot model of a plant to power the world's first atomic submarine, solved a key problem. The problem: since less than 1% of the world's uranium is fissionable, it might soon be exhausted...
...make ends meet, the retired professors have been forced to take up odd jobs. One runs the local community-chest drive, another works for the Masons, still another serves as a part-time consultant to a big Colorado cattleman. The former head of the chemistry department has worked as a printer in a Fort Collins print shop, but to supplement his monthly $37.14, his wife must baby-sit. Professor G. A. Schmidt, author of six textbooks on agriculture, has worked as an 80/-an-hour land appraiser, and Entomologist Miriam A. Palmer, an expert on aphids, receives only...