Word: loker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What to look for is uranium's radioactivity. The best loker is the portable Geiger counter, which finds uranium under the ground as a hog smells out truffles. The prospector carries it over the hills, poking into crevices. In his earphones he hears a few clicks stirred up by cosmic rays and normal earth radioactivity. If the clicks come faster, his heart generally beats faster too. If they swell to a roar, he may be near a uranium bonanza...