Word: mesa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MILDRED B. MILLER La Mesa, Calif...
...Government to come and give him $10,000. He didn't get it; the big bonus is offered only to those who find a deposit of high-grade ore, such as pitchblende. But his discovery, made at the 7,000-foot level on a huge, reddish mesa called Haystack Mountain (only 100 miles from the Los Alamos atomic project), set off a uranium rush which took Grants the way Grant took Richmond...
Santa Barbara School had long since moved down from the hills to a handsome $600,000 Spanish-colonial-style plant on a mesa overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Its alumni, canvassing West Coast parents and public-school principals, had lined up a record number of applicants for the coming year. And Santa Barbara, with an endowment of $200,000, a staff of 13 and 61 students (tuition & board: $2,000), was about to launch a $125,000 building project which would make room for 125 students...