Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the West and Southwest last week, the scrape of shovel, drone of plane and click of Geiger counter heralded the spread of uranium fever. As prospectors kept discovering uranium where no one had bothered to look before, Texas reported its first ore finds. Among the developments...
...uranium fever spread, geological consulting offices opened up in several Texas panhandle towns, lease prices soared from $1 to $10 an acre, and papers started running tips for prospectors. Exasperated Texas ranchers, whose tempers have worn thin as prospectors tramped across their land, pressured Texas state legislators to pass a bill giving them more protection against the invasion. Said Chairman William Mather of the Minerals Technology Department of San Antonio's Southwest Research Institute: "Uranium is more widely distributed than anyone thought only a few years ago. The problem now isn't to locate...
...William Penn brought 18 roses to America from London.* The American Beauty is the flower of the District of Columbia, Georgia has the white Cherokee rose, Iowa the wild rose, and New York an unspecified variety of rose. But the indigenous goldenrod, despite its exaggerated reputation for producing hay fever, has been the popular candidate for U.S. national flower...
...Guinea Pig. Things were again stirring excitingly on the drama front. NBC's Producers' Showcase went all-out with a 90-minute color production of the 1934 Broadway play Yellow Jack by Sidney Howard. In the dramatized account of the U.S. Army's conquest of yellow fever in Cuba, Lorne Greene was convincing as Major Walter Reed. Dane Clark packed considerable power into the role of Dr. Lazear, and Jackie Cooper, stuffed with brogue, blarney and bluster, was effective as O'Hara. Wally Cox wittily handled his small part as the soldier who becomes an innocent...
...Uranium fever struck Oklahoma last week, carried there by a Texas wildcatter named Samuel Labon Shepherd. Eight months ago Oilman Shepherd was checking land in Nowata County in northeastern Oklahoma with a scintillator, an electric gadget used to find oil as well as uranium. Around him were wells producing oil by the waterflood method, in which oil is recovered by pumping water into the ground, thus increasing the underground pressure and forcing oil up the well. On the surface, the oil and water are separated, and the water is passed through a sand filter before being recirculated through the well...