Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money ($900 million) than it wanted for the Air Force. The two bills for which the 84th will be longest remembered: the $33 billion highway construction program, biggest public works project in U.S. history, and the dam project to bring vital power and water to the hungry, thirsty Upper Colorado River Basin...
...COLORADO. The state convention met to hear speeches by Stevenson, Kefauver and Harriman, and to pick an uninstructed 20-vote delegation which leans strongly to Adlai. Harry Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan and ex-Congressman John Carroll got approval to fight it out for the Democratic senatorial nomination in a Sept. 11 primary. The winner will square off against ailing Republican Eugene Millikin in November...
...McGee spent 20 years pulling itself up to a $15 million annual business. Then, in the past five years, it trebled in size. Last week, Kerr-McGee spread itself still wider. It put together a combine with uranium ore reserves estimated at some 5,000,000 tons on the Colorado Plateau (total U.S. reserves: 30 million tons), worth some $200 million. If Kermac builds a $20 million processing mill next year, it may well become the second biggest (next to Anaconda Co.) uranium producer...
...major parks, the 153 national monuments, memorials, recreation areas and historic sites that make up the U.S.'s unmatched National Park system. On the Fourth of July, 34,000 rolled through the gates of Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee; 16.000 checked in at Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park; 4,000 descended into the Carlsbad Cavern of New Mexico; 8,350 arrived at Yosemite, and 20,000 at Yellowstone. By year's end, estimates the Interior Department's National Park Service, the visitor total will reach 55 million...
HAPPY JACK URANIUM MINE, one of richest in Colorado Plateau, has been bought by Texas-Zinc Mineral Corp., uranium subsidiary of Texas Co. and New Jersey Zinc. Fletcher Bronson and family originally bought mine for $1,000 as copper prospect in 1946, once turned down $15 million for it. Texas-Zinc is mum on purchase price, but has already started building processing mill at Mexican Hat to handle ore from Happy Jack and other southeastern Utah mines...