Word: geologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former boss and later when I made him a minority partner in my business, I am mortified that my good friend and geologist, Franc. R. Joubin, should write as he does of my career [June 10]. When Canadian Franc. Joubin was employed by me, the price of uranium had already been fixed by the U.S. at the rate of $8 or better per pound for all uranium-producing countries. Canada was not excluded. The North Span Uranium Mine was completely financed by Morgan, Stanley & Co. and the Chase Manhattan Bank to the extent of about $90 million...
Working with 32-to 65-ft.-long sedimentary cores taken from the bottom of the North Pacific, Geologist Bruce Heezen and his associates at Columbia's Lamont Geological Observatory carefully examined each one, slice by slice, for traces of residual magnetism and remnants of primitive life. Because sediment has settled continuously on the ocean bottom for millions of years, each core represented both a magnetic and evolutionary calendar; each slice was a thin but significant record of a brief period in the earth's history...
...geologist partner and the discoverer and developer of his mines, I'm mortified that my good friend and former grubstaker, American Joe Hirshhorn, should be quoted [May 20] as saying of his truly Horatio Algeric career: "The things I did in my life can only be done here." Joe, one of America's greatest unrecognized poets, was simply employing the usual license...
...returning to Harvard, almost half of V.T.A.'s participants have written theses dealing with Africa or have gone away to graduate school in African Studies. This year, one former member is going to the Ivory Coast as a geologist, another is in Zambia as an educational evaluator, a third is working with African students...
...until last November, though, did anyone offer reasonable answers. Then Consulting Geologist David Evans suggested that the quakes under the suddenly shaky Colorado terrain could be traced to a deep well at the nearby Rocky Mountain Arsenal. Military and civilian experts scoffed, but Evans backed up his theory with impressive evidence...