Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there was as much uranium in the meat as in the claims on which many of the uranium stocks had been floated. Many of the penny uranium stocks went into a slump. But few speculators were discouraged. Everyone still hoped to make a killing on the uranium-rich Colorado Plateau, where 650 new mines were opened during the year...
...Imogene Coca and John Fox. Henry Cabot Lodge will fly, with 20 other U.N. officials, to Peiping, protesting the imprisonment, since January, of Dag Hammerskold. In what will be termed "a regretable accident," their plane will be shot down. The National Security Council will hold an emergency meeting in Colorado Springs...
...Government function when the President's party is split? In fashioning next year's domestic program for Congress, the possibilities for friction had seemed greater than at the foreign-policy meeting. But Senate Leader William Knowland intoned that the talks had been "constructive and harmonious." Colorado's Senator Eugene Millikin reported that the whole affair was "like the cooing of doves...
...June 28), he refused to concede defeat. Although the Federal Power Commission awarded the franchise to rival Ray Fish's Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corp. (see map), nature had spotted McMahon's untapped gas supplies some 400 miles closer to Seattle than the San Juan Basin along the Colorado-New Mexico border, from which Fish planned...
...uranium boom on the Colorado Plateau has spawned another crop of big rich, led by Vernon Pick, who sold his uranium mine to Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp. for $9,000,000 (75% of which Pick kept under capital gains), and Charles Steen, whose Utex Exploration Co. (90% owned by Steen) has an estimated $150 million worth of uranium underground. Hollywood's high-paid stars, who by tradition blow their wealth on caviar and Cadillacs, have also learned how to join the ranks of the new millionaires. Bing Crosby, for example, was able to buy 20,000 shares...