Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dentists Frederick S. McKay of Colorado Springs and H. Trendley Dean of Washington, for promoting water fluoridation...
...uranium boom is the latest in a long series of ups & downs for the Colorado Plateau. The deposits of uranium-bearing carnotite ores have long been known; Indians once painted themselves with brilliant reds and yellows extracted from the carnotite rock. It was first mined commercially 40 years ago for its radium content, and for a time the area turned out half the world's supply of radium. (The uranium in the waste tailings from the mines was thrown away.) When richer radium-bearing ores were found in the Belgian Congo, the mines closed. Later, the area became...
...years, the parched, mountainous wastelands of the Colorado Plateau were known for their scattering of dinosaur bones and the ruined homes of prehistoric cliff-dwelling Indians. But now the area is known for something far more important: uranium. At Uravan, Colo. last week, the U.S. Vanadium Corp., a subsidiary of Union Carbide & Carbon, gave a fillip to the wastelands' glamorous new reputation and the boom under way. U.S. Vanadium opened the biggest uranium refining mill in the U.S.; by using a new process, it hopes to extract uranium from ores heretofore passed by. Spotted within a 200-mile radius...
...helicopter, horse and jeep. The number of uranium mines jumped from 15 to more than 200, their employment soared to 5,000. In 1951 alone, some $30 million of private capital was poured into the area, and uranium mining, though still wrapped in AEC secrecy, is thought to be Colorado's biggest mining industry. The uranium that is transported through the streets of Grand Junction every day is estimated to equal 15,000 tons of coal in energy...
...company in Grand Junction four years ago to provide drilling, exploration and consulting services, has since split his stock 100 for one and paid 20? a share, in effect a $20 dividend on the original stock. But he is an exception; most of the uranium miners on the Colorado Plateau are still waiting for the big chance. Said one: "It's just like a virus. It gets in your blood...