Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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URANIUM STRIKE on the Colorado Plateau may turn the nation's biggest gold producer into a uranium miner. Homestake Mining Co., which produced $18 million worth of gold last year and has spent $500,000 looking for uranium, has discovered a rich deposit at the end of a 3,200-ft. tunnel driven underground next to Millionaire Geologist Charles Steen's fabulous Mi Vida mine...
...then a correspondent for the United Press. In front of the North China Daily News Building on the Bund I ran into one of TIME's editors, who was on a trip through China. In the course of our chat he became interested in an extracurricular activity of mine, which was managing the Shanghai Amateur Baseball Club, the oldest U.S. organization in Shanghai. The club was originally formed in 1865, and it frequently played the Presbyterian Mission at Sungkiang, an all-Chinese team captained by onetime Premier Tang Shao-yi. Early competition was also found in the crews...
Last week Donald Bartlett and his associates added to the excitement; they sold their "Miracle Mine?" to Manhattan Geologist-Engineer M. William Ditto, representing a number of interests, for an announced "$1,000,000." Actually, the for buyers paid only $35,000, promised to pay the rest in royalties...
...same resolute glint in her eye as when she swam across the inlet near Juneau while the water was full of drifting ice floes. 'You're going to run for the U.S. Senate, Richard Neuberger,' said Maurine, 'if you get only two votes -yours and mine. I've made up my mind that the man who beat the oil-foreducation bill isn't going back to Washington unchallenged...
...months after it was seen in Manhattan, Salt of the Earth (TIME, March 29) opened to rave reviews in the anti-U.S. and left-wing press. A militantly proletarian film about striking Mexican-American zinc miners in New Mexico (sponsored by the Red-run International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers), Salt even won the measured approval of the staid Times: "American films as a whole proclaim that . . . the American way of life [comes] as near to perfection as is possible . . . There is much value in a minority report . . . Powerful, though perhaps prejudiced, is the case as pleaded...