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...southeast of Ambrosia Lake. But no one struck it rich in Ambrosia Lake until 1955. Then a young (31) Texan named Louis B. Lothmann came in with a $10,000 grubstake, two years of college geology and a hunch on where to look. He teamed up with Septuagenarian Stella Dysart, an oil wildcatter, who knew every corner of the 72-sq.-mi. area from her 30 unsuccessful years of oil hunting. Using Stella's drilling logs of rock formations and a rickety, secondhand rig, Lou Lothmann cut down 360 ft. into a 17-ft.-thick seam of uranium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC ENERGY: Uranium Jackpot | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Dividends. For the prospectors who uncovered its wealth, Ambrosia Lake has already started to issue dividends. Lou Lothmann sold out his original interest in the Dysart land to Rio de Oro Uranium Mines, Inc. for $200,000 in stock. Stella Dysart sold part of her share to Rio de Oro for $300,000 in stock, still holds a 12?% royalty interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC ENERGY: Uranium Jackpot | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...about half the U.S. total. But Ambrosia Lake's mining men are plowing up surrounding areas in search of more ore. Floyd Odium's Lisbon Uranium Corp. is prospecting around nearby San Mateo Dome, and Superior Oil Co. (California), has struck ore 30 miles west of the Dysart mine. When atomic power becomes a commercial reality, dusty Ambrosia Lake expects to have a permanent base for its newfound prosperity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC ENERGY: Uranium Jackpot | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Eight of the Harvard men voted to uphold the national committee's decision to oust the suspended chapters. These were: Stanley G. Karson '48, Roy Gootenberg '50, Eastman Birkett 3L, Richard W. Lyman 1G, Andrew B. Rice 2G, Reginald H. Zalles 4G, George D. Dysart 3L, and Robert Kuble '50. Leon M. Waks 3L and Charles S. Thomson 2L voted for the seating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Group Votes to Oust 11 Posts from AVC | 11/27/1948 | See Source »

State delegates are Robert Koblitz 3PA, Leon Waks 2L, and Ella Westerberg, Radcliffe '50 and all the national delegates but Dysart, Gootenburg, and Rice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVC Pledges $850 to War Memorial Center | 10/7/1948 | See Source »

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