Word: eldorado
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gathering at No. 5. It was as though the cast for some vast and somber drama was assembling before curtain time. Scores of miners' wives seated themselves numbly on benches in the mine washroom. Rescue crews from towns all around the coal fields-from Belleville, Herrin, Du Quoin, Eldorado, West Frankfort-stood in their hard-toed shoes studying a map of No. 5. Near them were reporters, photographers, state troopers, Red Cross workers, and the drivers of the hearses parked outside...
...bill in the House calling for Government development and control of atomic energy. The bill would 1) set up a five-man civilian board to conduct atomic research on an annual budget of $3,500,000 and 2) supervise operations of Canada's three uranium plants at Eldorado Mine, N.W.T., Port Hope, Ont., Chalk River, Ont. Minister Howe neatly got around the question whether civilians or the military should control atomic research. He made plain that Canada's research will be only for civilian uses. Military research presumably would be left up to Canada's atom bomb...
...Toronto, two obscure companies* sued to block a Government investigation into the affairs of the famed Eldorado uranium mine, Canada's great source of the raw material of atomic energy. The suit dragged out a closely guarded Government secret; Canadians had not known that Eldorado was under investigation- or why. Now they heard a story that might resound for months...
Sales & Cartels. When Canada's Government expropriated the Eldorado mine in January 1944 (TIME, Aug. 20), its prime (but secret) purpose was to insure an adequate supply of uranium for U.S., British and Canadian atom-bomb experimenters. Canadians found out last week that there was another reason too: in the operation of Eldorado, before expropriation and just after, the Government had detected something that looked suspect...
Apparently certain financial interests had been attempting to get control of Eldorado's uranium and to sell it, contrary to wartime metals regulations, for private profit. There were, moreover, reasons to suspect that attempts had been made to form an international uranium cartel involving Eldorado and Belgian Congo uranium interests. To get at the facts, a Toronto chartered accountant, J. Grant Glassco, had been appointed last May as chief investigator...