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...reason was that it was a new kind of mining, requiring a new kind of prospector. Trained geologists, equipped with gamma-ray logging units and other instruments, prospected the area by helicopter, horse and jeep. The number of uranium mines jumped from 15 to more than 200, their employment soared to 5,000. In 1951 alone, some $30 million of private capital was poured into the area, and uranium mining, though still wrapped in AEC secrecy, is thought to be Colorado's biggest mining industry. The uranium that is transported through the streets of Grand Junction every...
...summer long, Greek and Bulgar soldiers had lurked along the Evros, taking potshots at one another. The most serious skirmishes occurred on three swampy sandbanks named Alpha, Beta and Gamma that lie in the lee of the wooded Greek shore. Then one day last month a Greek patrol on Gamma island, which is about the size of a football field, walked into a Bulgar ambush and lost four men killed and two wounded. It became painfully clear to the Greeks that the Bulgars, egged on by the Russians who have a tank army close to the Evros, were determined...
...Evros last week went a task force of mechanized Greek infantry, supported by tanks, field guns and fighter planes. Third Corps Commander Stylianos Manidakis broadcast a 24-hour "ultimatum" telling any Bulgars who might still be on Gamma to get off or be blown off. A team of excited U.N. observers sent an alarmist cable to New York: "Big forces ready for action on both sides . . . Very dangerous situation may follow...
...next test of mass inoculations with gamma globulin as a protection against the paralyzing aftereffects of poliomyelitis, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis picked the area around Sioux City (Woodbury County, Iowa, and Dakota County, Neb.). It hoped to give the needle this week to 16,500 youngsters, aged one to eleven...
Atomic Yardstick. For Civil Defense groups, the Magnex Corp. of New York put on the market an Atometer, a 1-oz. vial for testing atomic radiation. When exposed to gamma rays, the chemical in the vial changes color, thus permits defense workers to judge accurately the amount of radiation in the air. Price...