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...garbage dump. Among his adversaries are not only the city authorities and the garbage men (who have no respect for a well-conducted dump), but a film company run by a madly implausible American operator named Claygate Corst. Though Corst doesn't have "enough do-re-mi in his pocket to acquire a second-hand mouse-trap," he takes over the decayed movie studios next to the dump. At this point the whimsicality that infects British writers when they deal with cockneys unfortunately takes over the novel. Old Cock arrays himself in a junkpile suit of armor and routs...
...URANIUM DEAL will give Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp. foothold in Millionaire Charles Steen's mining (Mi Vida mine) and milling (Uranium Reduction Co.) empire. After year of maneuvering, Odium bought 30% interest in $8,000,000 uranium mill being built by Steen's Uranium Reduction Co. at Moab, Utah. In return for share in mill, Odium will cancel plans for his own mill near by at La Sal, Utah...
Died. Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, 80, explorer, scientist, physician, millionaire socialite (left $5,000,000 in trust by his first wife, the former Eleanor Elkins Widener) and sometime cannibal fighter, who mapped 500,000 sq. mi. of Amazon and Orinoco River territory; at his summer home in Newport...
Mach 2. By any standard the Crusader is a hot plane. It packs missiles and fast-firing 20-mm. cannons, has a 1,000 mi. combat range, a service ceiling of 55,000 ft. Its top speed with a Pratt & Whitney J57 engine (more than 15,000 Ibs. of thrust with afterburner) is close to Mach 2 (1,320 m.p.h. at 30,000 ft.) in level flight. What helps make such speed possible for a carrier plane is the Crusader's stubby, sharply swept wings: they are ingeniously hinged, can be tilted upwards to act as enormous flaps...
...Awakening. But few marginal operators will share in the business. Of 1,000 uranium mines in the U.S., say Colorado uranium men, only a handful like Charles Steen's rich Mi Vida Mine are making money, have sewed up 90% of all production. Says Millionaire Steen himself: "The public has found out what we've known for a long time-that it's a damn hard job to find a good uranium mine. It isn't the bonanza that a lot of promoters led the public to believe. The crooked promoters and brokers killed their...