Word: hardrock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clearing the bright steel of a mine headframe cuts an angular pattern against the sky. From the smooth blacktop highway trucks laden with lumber and machinery waddle off toward mine sites deep in the bush. A scattered army of engineers, diamond drillers, airplane pilots, and hardrock miners is turning 900 square miles of lake-pocked wilderness into a billion-dollar empire: the Blind River uranium development...
...help about getting a direct commission for Schine, but not with the Central Intelligence Agency, because the CIA "was too juicy a subject for investigation . . ." Ray Jenkins asked if young Cohn had tried to high-pressure Smith into action-a suggestion that must have seemed incongruous to the hardrock old soldier. Snapped Smith: "Not me, sir!" His inquiries about a commission for Schine, he said, met with no more success than had Reber's. Then Bedell Smith snuffed out a last cigarette. McCarthy asked him no questions...