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Nobody believed him. For months AEC did not report back on his ore samples; neighbors gossiped that Charlie had salted "Steen's Folly" with pitchblende to raise money from the gullible. But Steen soon proved them wrong. He got $15,000 from Texas Construction Man Dan O'Laurie, incorporated as Utex Exploration Co., and started selling his ore to refiners at $50 and up a ton. AEC finally classified "Steen's Folly" as probably "one of the major uranium strikes" in the U.S.-an estimated 1,350,000 tons of uraninite ore reserves with a value...
...Dan A. (for Able) Kimball, 57, who resigned as Secretary of the Navy last January, became president of Aerojet-General Corp., a General Tire & Rubber Co. subsidiary. No stranger to General Tire, Kimball joined the company after World War I, was executive vice president and general manager of Aerojet Engineering Corp. (which merged with Crosley Motors last March to become Aerojet-General) when he left for Washington...
...morning after a hurried breakfast with the Cabinet, the President flew off to Amarillo, Texas for a fast personal inspection of the parched plains and a conference with the governors of six drought-ridden states: Texas' Allan Shivers, Colorado's Dan Thornton, New Mexico's Edwin Mechem, Oklahoma's Johnston Murray, Kansas' Edward Arn, Arkansas' Francis Cherry...
...CONGRESS Ike Gets His Way Once the Administration had battered down the roadblock set up by House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Dan Reed (TIME, July 6), the battle to extend the excess profits tax for six months was won. Last week Ways & Means sent an extension bill to the floor. During the five-hour debate, Virginia's Democrat Howard Smith compared the Administration to a highwayman who says: "Now give me your wallet. I know I ought not to do it . . . but I need the money, and I give you my solemn assurance ... I will never...
...sell a set of murals. But when he refused to revise the mural to Red specifications, i.e., make Stalin a more prominent figure, the Reds refused to pay for it, and Burck returned to the U.S. He worked for a year at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch under Dan Fitzpatrick (TIME, June 22) before joining the Chicago Times. Burck stoutly denied he was ever a Communist in spirit, said that he signed the party card only as a matter of "expediency," and that he never attended closed party meetings. As to why he never became a citizen after taking...