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Treasure Tracker. For uranium hunters who want to prospect from plane, train or auto (TIME. Oct. 11), Manhattan's Radiac Co. has developed a 6-lb. supersensitive Geiger counter. Price...
...Bakersfield Sears, Roebuck & Co. was hard put to keep Geiger counters and the more sensitive scintillators in stock, had already sold "hundreds" of them. Complained a professional ore analyzer: "My phone rings all night long. They call from all over the U.S., and they want to know if they should come out here and look for uranium...
Radioactive Guard. To protect factory workers, Hazatrol Corp. of San Francisco has developed a radioactive leather wristband that stops machines when a careless worker endangers himself. The wristbands are radioactive enough to set off a Geiger counter that controls a safety-stop mechanism. But the radioactivity is too low to harm workers. Installed price of the control mechanism: about...
...20th century uranium rush, only one prospector thus far has been dry-gulched in 19th century fashion. He was Leroy Albert Wilson, a brawling, bullying Utah claim-jumper, whose body was found near the Kanab uranium strike with six .45 bullet holes in the head and back and a Geiger counter still clicking in his hand (TIME, May 31). The sheriff promptly arrested Wilson's prospecting partner: Tom Holland, 49, a jovial, six-foot settler, who had driven off with Wilson the day of the murder, but came back alone. He claimed that he had dropped Wilson, returned early...
Pick bought some camping equipment, a rock pick and a Scintillometer ("sort of a fancy Geiger counter"), spent the next few months trudging around the Colorado and Utah countryside picking up tips from old hands at the game. Finally, with his funds running low, he set off for the remote southeastern Utah site that Rasor had marked on the map. The country was so rugged that Pick had to leave his panel truck, walk in the last 25 miles. As he followed Muddy Creek into a stark and jagged canyon, he had to ford the.stream 21 times in six miles...