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...height of his fame, he went to Eldorado Springs, Colo, to walk a steel cable which a resort owner, Frank Fowler, had strung across South Boulder Canyon. The cable was 635 ft. long and 582 ft. above a foaming torrent. As fourteen thousand watched, the professor walked the dizzy wire with ease, pausing in mid-passage to stand on his head...
...Eldorado Mining and Refining Co. Ltd.'s rich pitchblende field in the Northwest Territories' Great Bear Lake region. Eldorado's lode, which has put Canada in the forefront of uranium producers, was expropriated by the government in January 1944. At the same time it clapped a total security blackout on all atomic activities...
...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...
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...