Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Utah, which had 56 producers of lead and zinc in 1948, is down to nine. Park City, Eureka and Stockton, once thriving mining centers, are slowly dying from shutdowns, may become ghost towns. ¶ Colorado, whose 1950 lead production was 53.5 million Ibs., turned out only 41 million Ibs. in 1956 after a 13-year low in 1955 of 31-7 million. ¶ Idaho's mine lead production in 1956 was the lowest of any year (except 1946) since 1899. The Bradley mine in Stibnite, leading U.S. producer of stibnite-antimony, a vital hardening agent for lead and alloys...
...driver's test in New York, he related, he was assured that he would never pass "unless you 'accidentally' leave a five-dollar bill on the seat beside the inspector."* Recounting one attempt by a New York lawyer "to put money into his pocket and mine that should have gone to my employers," Coulter insisted: "Seldom a week goes by without someone offering...
...there is no story. And beyond that, they reflect a very personal, crinkly humorist and constitute a very Volstead Act and vers-libre period piece, the two things meeting in the on-the-wagon Don Marquis who said to a bartender: "I've conquered that goddam willpower of mine. Gimme a double Scotch...
...tens of billions of tons of iron ore" near Western Siberia's River Ob, if true, a richer field than world's biggest known iron deposits near Lake Superior. In Germany, Krupp has found major coal seam, will soon start country's first big coal-mining project since 1939, aims to mine 2,000,000 tons a year eventually...
Last week, with production up to 150 tons of ore daily, the mine's new owners were looking for a processing mill to handle their rich lode. One possibility was that they would buy the AEC's only remaining reduction mill at Monticello, Utah, use it to mill their...