Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will soon add to its foreign sources for uranium (now principally the Belgian Congo and Canada) by imports from Australia and South Africa. ¶ Domestically, the AEC has developed uranium mines on the Colorado Plateau (where it is building 783 miles of new roads), has found good prospects in the Black Hills of South Dakota. ¶ In Joliet, Ill., the Blockson Chemical Co. will soon begin full-scale production of uranium from a new source, phosphoric acid. ¶ Barely started on its new $3.5 billion expansion program, the AEC already employs about 3% of the total construction force...
...Colorado's Senator Eugene Millikin stood at the rostrum reading the 1952 Republican platform. A buzz of conversation rose from the convention floor, and the aisles were filled with milling delegates. Permanent Chairman Joe Martin, accustomed to a high degree of buzz-buzz while platforms are being read, decided that this was too much. He whacked down his big wooden gavel and shouted: "The convention will please come to order. This is an important document . . . The delegates should at least know what they're going to vote on in a few minutes...
...roll was called, Ike's gains were minute. He picked up one vote each in Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Maryland and Massachusetts, and three votes in Michigan. Meanwhile, Taft picked up one vote each in Colorado, Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky...
Eisenhower had some ideas about the sort of fellow he wanted for a running mate: a young, "forward-looking" man, and someone who would help him get along with Congress. Among others, he considered Senators Knowland and Nixon, Governors Warren, Sherman Adams (New Hampshire), Val Peterson (Nebraska), Dan Thornton (Colorado). Brother Milton Eisenhower plugged for Taft; although Eisenhower advisers thought that Taft 1) would be bad for the ticket, 2) would not accept anyway. Eisenhower left the final decision to a meeting of his advisers, presided over by Herbert Brownell, at the Hilton, on the afternoon of his nomination...
Backstage at Denver's Coliseum one night last week, Dwight Eisenhower ran a hand over his bald head. "I want to be sure everything is on straight," he quipped. Then, as Colorado's Governor Dan Thornton boomed out an introduction, blue velvet curtains opened and the green Chevrolet convertible in which Ike sat rolled out on to the floor of the arena, made a half circle and came to a stop. Stepping briskly up the steps to the podium, Eisenhower began a speech which foreshadowed the kind of presidential campaign he hopes to make...