Word: geologists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should be able to cut that price in half," and eventually get it down to where it could have a wide civilian use. Holloway himself already has begun to use it in small key parts of valves, soon will be making special valves entirely of it. He has sent geologist scouts around the continent hunting deposits of rutile and ilmenite, the chief sources of titanium. They have already staked out some promising claims in Quebec...
Lean, stubborn Charles A. (for Austin) Steen was so full of troubles that it was only natural to think of him as Bad-Luck Charlie. A onetime oil geologist for Socony-Vacuum, he spent two years in the South American jungle where no white men had ever been before, then went to work for a Texas oil company. When he was fired for telling off his boss, he found that no other oil company would have him. He scraped along in the contracting business for a while, but never forgot a romantic dream of his days at the Texas College...
...turned it down, is angling for a deal for $10 million with another group. Says Charlie Steen: "I don't want to build a financial empire, or become any kind of a big entrepreneur -I'm not cut out for it. I'm just a geologist and prospector, and that's what I want to be-although now I can do my prospecting in a limousine...
When the White House nominated Utah Geologist Tom Lyon to be director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, trouble rumbled right behind the announcement. United Mine Workers Boss John L. Lewis opposed Lyon because he had no coal-mining experience, and 88% of U.S. miners are coal miners. But no one was prepared for the explosion that blew the nomination to bits last week...
Indiana's Geologist Jesse James Galloway, 70, expert on foraminifera (a group of microfossils) and the first man to give a course in micropaleontology. In his 24 years at Indiana, he taught hundreds of students how to tell a fossil's age, was always so fascinated by his own subject that he once flabbergasted the officials of a busy bank by crawling about on his hands and knees, searching for fossils in the marble wall. Though a tough teacher (during an examination he strolled among his students whistling Have You Forgotten So Soon?), he had an unorthodox contempt...